The comments on this post are worth reading. It's impossible to construct a meaningful synthetic benchmark without more rigor about what client is being used, h

The comments on this post are worth reading. It's impossible to construct a meaningful synthetic benchmark without more rigor about what client is being used, how it's configured, how the OS is tuned, testing against actual files (rather than a "Hello World" 100 byte file), details on default tuning for each webserver, and finally what exactly is intended to be tested and what is in fact being tested. A great post on the subject from mnot: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules