WordPress speedtest with Sqlite3 on PHP-CLI. You only have to unpack it on a VPS or a shared hosting account with SSH access.
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| Description | CPU | PHP | msec | stable* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private Layer / 4 Cores @ 3.0 GHz | Intel X5675 | 5.6 | 145 | [✓] |
| UpCloud / in Frankfurt ⏰ | Intel E5-2687W v3 | 5.6 | 115 | [✓] |
| Liquid Web / Storm VPS 1GB | Intel E3-1271 v3 | 5.6 | 94 | [✓] |
| Digital Ocean ⏰ | Intel E5-2630L v2 | 5.6 | 195 | [✓] |
| Linode / KVM ⏰ | Intel E5-2680 v3 | 5.6 | 180 | [ ] |
| Virtualbox on my PC | AMD FX-6300 | 5.4 | 219 | [✓] |
| RunAbove by OVH / Sandbox | Intel E312xx Sandy Bridge | 5.5 | 200 | [ ] |
| RunAbove by OVH / Steadyfast | Intel E312xx Sandy Bridge | 5.5 | 154 | [✓] |
| OVH Public Cloud / CPU instance EG-7 ⏰ | Intel E5-2687W v3 | 5.6 | 151 | [✓] |
| OVH Web / Cloud VPS | AMD Opteron 4386 | 5.5 | 210 | [✓] |
| OVH Web / Cloud VPS | AMD Opteron 4284 | 5.6 | 293 | [✓] |
| Vultr / Compute instances ⏰ | N/A | 5.6 | 165 | [ ] |
| Aruba Cloud / Smart Small (€1) | Intel L5640 | 5.6 | 210 | [ ] |
| Aruba Cloud / Smart Large | Intel E5-2650 v3 | 5.6 | 143 | [✓] |
| EDIS / KVM Basic plus | Intel E5649 | 5.6 | 240 | [ ] |
| Joyent Public Cloud / High CPU 1.75 SmartOS | Intel E5-2670 | 5.5 | 245 | [ ] |
| Joyent Public Cloud / High CPU 1.75 KVM | Intel E5-2690 v3 | 5.6 | 267 | [ ] |
| SoYouStart dedicated by OVH / E3-SSD-3 💻 | Intel E3-1245 v2 | 5.6 | 148 | [✓] |
| SoYouStart dedicated by OVH / E3-SSD-3 💻 | Intel E3-1245 v2 + | 5.6 | 113 | [✓] |
| Brightbox / SSD 1G ⏰ | Intel E312xx Sandy Bridge | 5.5 | 210 | [✓] |
| Custom PC / ASUS P5KPL-AM EPU 💻 | Intel Pentium E5400 | 5.3 | 262 | [ ] |
| HostHatch / SSD VPS - KVM | Intel E5-1650 v2 | 5.6 | 256 | [ ] |
| StackPort / m1.medium (beta) | Intel Haswell | 5.6 | 121 | [✓] |
| GleSYS / OpenVZ in Falkenberg ⏰ | Intel E5-2687W v3 | 5.6 | 129 | [✓] |
| BigV / in York | QEMU | 5.6 | 210 | [✓] |
| Wable / Bundle #2 (OpenVZ) | N/A | 5.6 | 203 | [✓] |
| Scaleway / C1 💻 ⏰ | Marvell Armada 370/XP | 5.6 | 1111 | [✓] |
| SWNet Group | Intel E5-2630 v3 | 5.6 | 167 | [ ] |
| Rendszerinformatika | Intel E5-2665 | 5.5 | 222 | [ ] |
| Amazon EC2 / c4.large ⏰ | Intel E5-2666 v3 | 5.6 | 113 | [✓] |
| CenturyLink / Standard server ⏰ | Intel E5-2680 | 5.6 | 151 | [✓] |
| CenturyLink / Hyperscale ⏰ | Intel E5-2697 v2 | 5.6 | 150 | [✓] |
| RamNode / Premium KVM SSD in NL | Intel E3-1230 V2 | 5.6 | 185 | [ ] |
| webtropia-myLoc / vServer M 4.0 | Intel E5-2620 v2 | 5.6 | 234 | [ ] |
| Cloud.hu by EZIT / Cloud Webtárhely Plus 2 †† | Intel E3-1240 V2 | 7.0 | 122 | [✓] |
| Cloud.hu by EZIT / Cloud Webtárhely Plus 2 †† | Intel E3-1240 V2 | 5.6 | 169 | [✓] |
| Tárhely.eu / Alap DDR4 | Intel E5-1620 v3 | 5.6 | 175 | [ ] |
| ProfiTárhely / WORDPRESS † | Intel E3-1230 V2 | 5.6 | 323 | [ ] |
| Magyar Hosting / EVO 3 †† | Intel E5-1650 | 5.6 | 195 | [✓] |
| Host Europe / Virtual Server Advanced | Intel E5-2620 v2 | 5.6 | 256 | [ ] |
| Host Europe / Root Server M | Intel E5-2620 v2 | 5.6 | 207 | [✓] |
| Host Europe / new Virtual Server Advanced | Intel E5-2640 v3 | 5.6 | 122 | [✓] |
| Cloud.hu by EZIT / Pro Cloud Flotta ⏰ | Intel X5670 | 5.6 | 283 | [ ] |
| elastichosts / VM 2000 MHz ⏰ | Intel E5-2680 v2 | 5.6 | 179 | [✓] |
| VEXXHOST / v1-standard-1 | Intel E5520 | 5.6 | 220 | [✓] |
| Springs.io by elastichosts / Container 8000 MHz ⏰ | Intel E5-2680 v2 | 5.6 | 161 | [ ] |
| CityCloud / 1C-1GB in London ⏰ | Intel E312xx Sandy Bridge | 5.6 | 152 | [ ] |
| LeaseWeb / Virtual Server Type S | QEMU | 5.6 | 153 | [✓] |
| Hostinger / OpenVZ Plan 1 | Intel E5-2620 v3 | 5.6 | 264 | [✓] |
| Netrouting / XEN256 | Intel X5650 | 5.6 | 198 | [ ] |
| Magyar Hosting / SSD VPS | Intel X5690 | 5.5 | 180 | [ ] |
| Packet / Type 1 in EWR1 💻 ⏰ | Intel E3-1240 v3 | 5.6 | 99 | [✓] |
| servetheworld / SSD 2 GB in Norway | Intel E5 | 5.6 | 225 | [ ] |
| Pantheon / (sandbox site) †† | Intel E5-2670 | 5.6 | 430 | [ ] |
| Maxer / VPS 2GHz | N/A | 5.6 | 272 | [✓] |
| Gandi.net / Simple Hosting †† | Intel E5-2650L | 5.4 | 600 | [ ] |
| iFastNet / Entry (OpenVZ) | Intel i7-4771 | 5.6 | 190 | [ ] |
| CloudSigma / in ZRH ⏰ | Intel E5-2697 v3 | 5.6 | 238 | [ ] |
| Scaleway / VPS ⏰ | Intel Atom C2750 | 5.6 | 500 | [✓] |
| Scaleway / C2S 💻 ⏰ | Intel Atom C2550 | 5.6 | 381 | [✓] |
| Exoscale / Medium in CH-DK-2 ⏰ | Intel E312xx Sandy Bridge | 5.6 | 199 | [ ] |
| Telekom Cloud / c2.medium | Intel E5-2658A v3 | 5.6 | 415 | [✓] |
| US Dedicated / KVM 1 | QEMU | 5.6 | 497 | [ ] |
| GoDaddy / Cloud Server Tiny ⏰ | Intel E312xx Sandy Bridge | 5.6 | 190 | [✓] |
| Zetta.IO / m3.medium ⏰ | Intel E5-2695 v2 | 5.6 | 209 | [✓] |
| Zetta.IO / t2.small ⏰ | Intel E5-2640 v3 | 5.6 | 190 | [ ] |
| Microsoft Azure / Standard DS1 ⏰ | Intel E5-2660 | 5.6 | 220 | [ ] |
| Microsoft Azure / Standard D1 v2 ⏰ | Intel E5-2673 v3 | 5.6 | 143 | [✓] |
| Packet / Type 1 in AMS1 💻 ⏰ | Intel E3-1240 v5 | 5.6 | 93 | [✓] |
| RackForest / Linux VPS Eight | Intel E5-2630 v2 | 5.6 | 230 | [✓] |
| RackForest / SSD Ten †† | Intel E3-1231 v3 | 5.6 | 105 | [✓] |
| Binary Lane / 1 CPU 512 MB ⏰ | N/A | 5.6 | 190 | [ ] |
| Server4You / vServer SSD M8 | Intel E5520 | 5.6 | 209 | [✓] |
| Byte.nl / trial †† | Intel E56xx | 5.6 | 381 | [✓] |
| A Small Orange / Level II Cloud VPS + Cloud VIP Boost | QEMU | 5.6 | 203 | [✓] |
| SzerverPlex / 4core 2GB | Intel X5450 | 5.6 | 256 | [✓] |
| KnownHost / SSD-1 managed | Intel E5-2620 v3 | 5.6 | 167 | [✓] |
| Storm on Demand / Storm VPS 1GB ⏰ | Intel E3-1271 v3 | 5.6 | 94 | [✓] |
| Szerverem.hu / XXXL | AMD Opteron 6136 | 5.6 | 297 | [✓] |
| ATW / OctopusVS | Intel E5-2670 | 5.6 | 190 | [ ] |
| PCextreme / Agile 512M ⏰ | Common KVM | 5.6 | 143 | [ ] |
| PCextreme / Stamina 4G ⏰ | Common KVM | 5.6 | 198 | [✓] |
| Integrity / vCloud | Intel E7-4870 | 5.6 | 181 | [✓] |
| Inulogic / VPS Perso | Intel E3-1240 v2 | 5.6 | 117 | [✓] |
| Virpus / Pure SSD VPS | Intel E5-2620 | 5.6 | 341 | [ ] |
| ProfitBricks / in Frankfurt ⏰ | AMD Opteron 62xx | 5.6 | 201 | [✓] |
| HostUS / Unmanaged VPS | Intel E5-1650 v3 | 5.6 | 128 | [✓] |
| GloboTech / Popular 2 | Intel E5-26xx | 5.6 | 234 | [✓] |
| Versanus / 4core 0.5GB | AMD Opteron 6238 | 5.6 | 270 | [ ] |
| ATW / FlyHOST 💻 | ARMv7 rev 3 (v7l) | 5.6 | 406 | [✓] |
| Webhuset / SSD VPS 2GB | Intel E5-2665 | 5.6 | 207 | [✓] |
| Webonic / V2 | Intel E312xx Sandy Bridge | 5.6 | 175 | [ ] |
| Description | CPU | PHP | msec | stable* |
* Stable means deviation is within ± 10%.
† Shared hosting with SSH access.
†† Shared high-resource hosting with SSH access.
💻 Dedicated server, not VPS.
⏰ Hourly (or daily) billing available.
+ CPU scaling_governor was set to performance.
# On a Debian based system
apt-get install -y wget ca-certificates php5-cli php5-sqlite
# Test sqlite extension
php -m | grep -Eqx "sqlite3|SQLite" || echo "Please enable sqlite extension." 1>&2
# Download and untar in one go
wget -qO- https://github.com/szepeviktor/wordpress-speedtest/releases/download/v0.1.2/wordpress-speedtest.tar.gz|tar xzv
# Start a test
cd wordpress-speedtest/ && time php index.php > /dev/null# One time run
time php index.php|grep -q 'Hello world.</a></h2>' || echo "WordPress error." 1>&2
# Ten runs
time for R in {1..10}; do php index.php > /dev/null; done
# Live stability test
while :; do { time php index.php > /dev/null; sleep 0.2; } 2>&1|grep "^real"; done
# Simple graph * with percentage of change
MSEC_PERC=1 MSEC_DELAY=0 MSEC_DOT=_ MSEC_DIVIDER=2 msec php index.php
# Nice graph of stability
apt-get install -y gnuplot5-nox feedgnuplot
while :; do { time php index.php > /dev/null; sleep 0.2; } 2>&1 \
| sed -n 's/^real\s\+0m\([0-9.]\+\)s$/\1/p'; done \
| feedgnuplot --terminal 'dumb 120,40' --stream --points --lines -xlen 30 --set "xtics 10"
# CPU model
dmidecode --type 4
cat /proc/cpuinfoInstall PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
cPanel servers have PHP-CLI binary at /opt/alt/php56/usr/bin/php
* Download msec from szepeviktor/debian-server-tools
Please report your result!