A year ago, we released the Magento 2.2 benchmark report. It showed the performance of the clean Magento 2.2.4 installation (with sample data) on Ubuntu 16.04, with PHP 7.0.33, MySQL 14.14, with FPC enabled. It showed the response times of the category page, the cart and the checkout on three different Digital Ocean droplets.
Today we are going to run an almost identical load test on Magento 2.3.0. The only difference will be the PHP version - PHP 7.2.11.
Few weeks ago, one of our customers asked to benchmark one of our extensions. To do that, we first needed to perform a benchmark on a clean Magento installation – we chose Magento 2.2.4.
We created our benchmark test using Apache Jmeter. Jmeter is a very handy tool to perform benchmarks and load tests. It is very easy to create a test with Jmeter – it has a recorder tool that lets you record your test by listening to a browser. After recording the test, the Jmeter lets you run it and choose the load of your test (the “Ramp-up Period” and “Number of Threads” – those definitions are explained later on in the article).