mywebtonet

Hi again

The test is i different sections, if it takes a lot of time to complete it might be one of the MySQL test that fails. One of the tests is horribly slow on MySQL 5.1 (10-20 times slower), we might remove that part in the next update.

More power for your system = faster rendering = faster load time. We get quite a few submissions from people using this plugin at the moment, test results varies from around 10 seconds to 125.

What we can see as well is that almost all PHP servers are running versions that are not the latest, some are even 3-5 years old and have a lot of security issues. This plugin can be used for more than just testing CPU.

The more CPU power the more power you have available to handle malicious robots etc etc, thottling means that everyone else that looks at your site when it’s thottled will have slow load times. CPU power is very relevant to how your website performs, loads, renders etc etc.

Noone asks you to switch provider. You mention that you’ve got “good load times”, that might be the case, but if the tests performed in the plugin was, let’s say, 3 times faster, you would see a significant improvement in your load time. We do also mention that there are many other factors that affects your website, we only test how fast your PHP server can perform some math, string, ifelse etc tests and how fast your MySQL server can perform similar tests.

Rgds

Hi again

The good thing about this plugin is that it tests what CPU performance is allocated to your server. Your provider might do CPU thottling on your server(s) during the day, you will be able to see this as the time to complete the test varies, the server load is also a good indication of how behind the server is with it’s duties.

Rgds

Hi again

php.ini or not will definately affect your visual performance on the web server side. The default settings in PHP is not optimal. You can try to run the test 5 times, one each minute and compare the results with and without the php.ini file. Results should be exactly the same unless you’ve got a high load on your webserver side (MySQL is not tested for load).

The source code is public, you can see the simple tests and what they do, there is no way it can tweeked to show results that are not real, the results shown are exactly what it says on the box, core performance tests and nothing else.

You’re welcome to submit each result to us with the submit button, we won’t disclose anything.

Rgds

Hi, thank you for your interest ??

The plugin is, as we say, a pure CPU performance testing plugin. There is really not much you can do to improve the performance figures as these are down to the hardware behind your PHP and MySQL servers. Not having a PHP.INI file should not affect your performance that much, it is probably down to your provider being overloaded. If their servers are overloaded (you can see the load average in the results) the results will fluctuate a lot.

We have a long list of features we would like to put in and we will work on it when time is there ??

In the bottom you can see 3 examples from our server park, so you could ask your provider how come it’s not as fast ??

Rgds