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> If you just put a static "Hello World" webpage on a server and try to benchmark it with something generic like `ab`, yes, HTTPS appears to be several times sl
by avian 12y ago
> If you just put a static "Hello World" webpage on a server and try to benchmark it with something generic like `ab`, yes, HTTPS appears to be several times slower than HTTP.
Can you suggest a benchmark tool that can be used to give a more realistic figure than `ab`? I know jmeter can do session caching, but I find its interface baffling and I can't find a pre-made configuration.
I recently compared performance of my home ARM server when serving my blog through HTTP and HTTPS:
https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2014/11/cubietruck_ssl_performance/ https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2014/11/cubietru...
- kijin 12y agoSorry, it's been a while since I've looked at HTTP/S benchmarking tools, so I can't say which one has the latest & greatest features. By the way, did you use `ab` with the `-k` option when you ran those benchmarks? Testing HTTPS without keep-alive is utterly meaningless, since every browser aggressively reuses HTTPS connections nowadays.