Sorry, 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 `

Sorry, 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.