Kudos for the step-by-step benchmarking. However, ideal situations and no business requirements can give you pretty impressive statistics. The most load produci

Kudos for the step-by-step benchmarking. However, ideal situations and no business requirements can give you pretty impressive statistics. The most load producing elements of every Wordpress site I've worked on have been necessary to pay the bills, allow a reasonable workflow for content creators, or provide good user experience. When you load in a sizable theme, warm up the DB with thousands of posts, tens of thousands of comments and users, and have requirements of short TTLs for new stories to be posted, comment administration, etc, and real world traffic... the picture looks a little different.