This page is to document the time the site takes to load.

2011-07-05

This is before Varnish has been deployed and also test can only be done using http as https requests get a 302 redirect back to http.

apache bench

Requests were done from another machine in the same rack, 200 requests for the front page, 10 at a time, using http, the first request took about 4 seconds and almost all the rest were less that 0.1 second:

ab -v 4 -n 200 -c 10 -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" http://www.transitionnetwork.org/

LOG: Response code = 200
LOG: header received:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:02:58 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Drupal-Cache: HIT
Etag: "1309867375-0"
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:02:55 +0000
Expires: Sun, 11 Mar 1984 12:00:00 GMT
Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 7727
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Time taken for tests:   5.131 seconds
Complete requests:      200

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     57
  66%     66
  75%     74
  80%     77
  90%    100
  95%   4014
  98%   4019
  99%   4039
 100%   4050 (longest request)