Benchmarking HTTP servers
ApacheBench ApacheBench (ab) is a tool bundled with the Apache HTTP server which can be used to benchmark any kind of HTTP server. To benchmark localhost (100000 requests with 100 concurrent connections): ab -c100 -n10000 http://127.0.0.1/ Sample output: Server Software: nginx/1.6.2 Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1 Server Port: 80 Document Path: / Document Length: 612 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 6.965 seconds Complete requests: 100000 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 84400000 bytes HTML transferred: 61200000 bytes Requests per second: 14357....