This benchmark was originally created to benchmark Gatsby's node creation and query running by creating lots of pages rendered from Markdown.
However, it generates the pages as part of the test, which adds overhead and skews timing (warms up node / memory).
Additionally it was leaning heavily on the markdown plugin because the tables were taking a lot of time to process. And it was indexing by slug, rather than id.
For a more representative benchmark, based on this one, see the markdown-slug and markdown-id sites in the parent benchmark folder. They do the same as this site, without the tables, and one indexes by slug and the other by id.
Keeping this benchmark for historical reasons but would suggest to pick one of the other markdown benchmarks.
Defaults to building a site with 5k markdown pages and 25 maximum rows per age. Set the NUM_PAGES and MAX_NUM_ROWS environment variables to change that e.g. NUM_PAGES=25000 MAX_NUM_ROWS=100 gatsby build
First, install node modules required by package.json. This is needed only one time. Then run the build
yarn
yarn buildAlternatively
yarn bench