I wanted to start a discussion about how to estimate the number of requests a given server can handle per second. So when I read "x requests/s" I can put that i

I wanted to start a discussion about how to estimate the number of requests a given server can handle per second. So when I read "x requests/s" I can put that into perspective. But it seems you think I wanted to start a dick measuring contest? If your question is genuine: I would serve images via a CDN. The above timing is for assembling a page by doing an auth check, a bunch of database queries and templating the result.