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CodeIgniter 4 Bench Tests

in category Diagnostics -> PHP Applications -> CodeIgniter 4 Bench Tests. Updated at Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:32:32 EST

Checking the performance of CodeIgniter 4 with Apache Bench.

My bench tests for CodeIgniter 4. This is a fresh install of CodeIgniter, there is not even a database defined yet. I added a route controller for /home only. Codeigniter looks impressive, but keep in mind nothing actually exists in this build yet.

$ ab -c1 -n50 https://ci4.localnet/home/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1903618 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking ci4.localnet (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        ci4.localnet
Server Port:            443
SSL/TLS Protocol:       TLSv1.3,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,2048,256
Server Temp Key:        X25519 253 bits
TLS Server Name:        ci4.localnet

Document Path:          /home/
Document Length:        233 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   0.742 seconds
Complete requests:      50
Failed requests:        32
   (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 32, Exceptions: 0)
Non-2xx responses:      50
Total transferred:      19572 bytes
HTML transferred:       10562 bytes
Requests per second:    67.42 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       14.833 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       14.833 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          25.77 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
  min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       10   12   1.7     12      21
Processing:     2    2   0.4      2       3
Waiting:        1    2   0.4      2       3
Total:         12   15   1.8     14      24

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     14
  66%     15
  75%     15
  80%     16
  90%     17
  95%     17
  98%     24
  99%     24
 100%     24 (longest request)

If I hit the front page, I get this:

$ ab -c1 -n50 https://ci4.localnet/     
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1903618 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking ci4.localnet (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        ci4.localnet
Server Port:            443
SSL/TLS Protocol:       TLSv1.3,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,2048,256
Server Temp Key:        X25519 253 bits
TLS Server Name:        ci4.localnet

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        40015 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   7.256 seconds
Complete requests:      50
Failed requests:        13
   (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 13, Exceptions: 0)
Total transferred:      2013837 bytes
HTML transferred:       2000737 bytes
Requests per second:    6.89 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       145.130 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       145.130 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          271.02 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
			  min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        9   11   1.1     11      15
Processing:   131  134   2.3    134     141
Waiting:      130  132   2.3    132     140
Total:        141  145   2.7    144     154

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    144
  66%    145
  75%    146
  80%    146
  90%    149
  95%    150
  98%    154
  99%    154
 100%    154 (longest request)

There is some default content on the default front page and that is quite a response speed difference from the static page at /home. CodeIgniter can be investigated some more because that first test is really, really impressive. I would build into this framework and feel somewhat confident that my PHP app is built well. I have not scanned this build for any security issues yet.

I may add a database to this build and re-test in the near future. I can use that base for any future CodeIgniter projects that land on my desk.

Keywords
codeigniter framework, php frameworks, codeigniter 4 performance