BenchmarkJoomla

Joomla Benchmarks

We took a demo Joomla site and loaded up its main page (around 378KB) to test our HTTP/2 implementation against that of nginx and Apache. LiteSpeed Web Server was paired with LSCache while nginx and Apache were tested with System Page Cache. Team LiteSpeed handily declared victory by processing more than 400X as many requests as the other servers!

Key results

At A Glance

HTTP/2 Test Results

Joomla test shows LiteSpeed Web Server is 426X faster than Nginx and 510X faster than Apache.

HTTP 1.1 Test Results

Joomla test shows LiteSpeed Web Server is 202X faster than Nginx and 233X faster than Apache.

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HTTP/2 Test Results

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HIGHEST RESULT55647LiteSpeed
Requests / Sec0 — 55647
LiteSpeed
55647
Nginx
130.6
Apache
109.1
426.1× vs Nginx on this metricView source and methodology ↗
ServerRequests / SecMB / SecFailuresHeader Compression
LiteSpeed55647233.26096.6%
Nginx130.60.61023.59%
Apache109.10.48078.54%
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HTTP 1.1 Test Results

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HIGHEST RESULT24754.9LiteSpeed
Requests / Sec0 — 24754.9
LiteSpeed
24754.9
Nginx
122.28
Apache
106.26
202.4× vs Nginx on this metricView source and methodology ↗
ServerRequests / SecMB / SecFailuresHeader Compression
LiteSpeed24754.9114.74N/AN/A
Nginx122.280.6N/AN/A
Apache106.260.52N/AN/A
Methodology

Test Environment

Figures as published by LiteSpeed Technologies. Results depend on hardware, configuration and workload — test with your own application for the most relevant numbers.

  • Servers Tested: LiteSpeed Web Server v5.4.1 nginx v1.16.1 Apache v2.4.41
  • Joomla: Version: 3.9.11 LiteSpeed Cache: LiteSpeed Cache for Joomla nginx Cache: System Page Cache Apache Cache: System Page Cache NOTE: We ran a few tests with JotCache and Page Cache Extended (PCE), but neither one improved much on the built-in System Cache.
  • Client Machine: Memory Size: 991.09MB CPU number: 1 CPU Model: Virtual CPU 6db7dc0e7704 Disk: NVMe SSD
  • Server Machine: Memory Size: 991.09MB CPU number: 1 CPU Model: Virtual CPU 6db7dc0e7704 Disk: NVMe SSD
  • Network: Traffic: 8.70 Gbits/sec Latency: 0.358 ms
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