LSCache For Drupal 9 Benchmark

Drupal 9 sites perform more than 8X faster with LiteSpeed Web Server + LSCache than with nginx + Fast CGI.

Benchmark Overview

We compared LiteSpeed Web Server + LSCache for Drupal, OpenLiteSpeed + LSCache for Drupal, and nginx + FastCGI. LiteSpeed Web Server, when paired with the LiteSpeed Cache module for Drupal, loads a Drupal and Umami 9.0.7 theme demo site up to 1.6 times faster than OpenLiteSpeed and up to 8.7 times faster than nginx!

We followed the methodology found at http2benchmark.org, meaning our results are verifiable and repeatable.

Summary

HTTP/2 Test Results

h2load -n 100000 -c 100 -t 1 -T 5 -m 10 -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' https://benchmark.com/drupal/
Server Requests / Sec MB / Sec Failures Header Compression
LiteSpeed
23971.35
189.78
0
95.94%
OpenLiteSpeed
15162.29
122.31
0
96.90%
nginx
2753.72
22.96
0
20.33%

LiteSpeed Web Server’s HTTP/2 implementation outperforms nginx by 8.7X, and OpenLiteSpeed by 1.6X when loading Drupal 9.

HTTP 1.1 Test Results

wrk -c 100 -t 1 -d 5s -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' https://benchmark.com/drupal/
Server Requests / Sec MB / Sec Failures Header Compression
LiteSpeed
14313.67
120.71
N/A
N/A
OpenLiteSpeed
9588.93
83.54
N/A
N/A
nginx
2602.16
24.59
N/A
N/A

LiteSpeed Web Server performs 5.5X faster than nginx and 1.5X faster than OpenLiteSpeed when loading Drupal 9 via HTTP/1.1.

Test Environment

Softwares Tested:

  • LiteSpeed Web Server v5.4.10
  • LiteSpeed cache: LiteSpeed Cache for Drupal
  • Drupal Version 9.0.7
  • OpenLiteSpeed v1.6.17
  • nginx v1.18.0
  • nginx FastCGI Cache

Setup:

  • LiteSpeed: LiteSpeed Web Server → LiteSpeed Cache for Drupal
  • OpenLiteSpeed: LiteSpeed Open Source Web Server → LiteSpeed Cache for Drupal
  • nginx: nginx → FastCGI → nginx

Client Machine:

  • Memory Size: 1GB
  • CPU number: 1
  • CPU Threads: 1
  • CPU Model: Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
  • Disk: NVMe SSD

Server Machine:

  • Memory Size: 1GB
  • CPU number: 1
  • CPU Threads: 1
  • CPU Model: Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
  • Disk: NVMe SSD

Network:

  • Traffic: 5.88 Gbits/sec
  • Latency: 0.241 ms

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