eZ Publish Performance Optimization Part 1 of 3: Introduction and Benchmarking
Tuesday 16 January 2007 1:33:00 pm
In this article we have introduced some key performance terminology and discussed three benchmarking tools.
The three benchmarking tools mentioned all have unique benefits. Ab is the simplest and comes pre-installed with Apache. Both siege and http_load handle multiple URLs. Siege can be used with sproxy to generate and test a URL list mimicking a user's interaction with the site, while http_load does a good job at measuring latency.
You can use various performance statistics to finetune your eZ Publish site. In the next article in this series, we will look at debugging with eZ Publish; the third and final article in the series will describe concrete solutions to improve your eZ Publish site's performance.