Small Static File Benchmark

Small Static File Benchmark

OpenLiteSpeed vs. nginx and Apache

OpenLiteSpeed outperformed nginx and Apache by as much as 6X and 29X, respectively, when loading small static files over HTTP/2. You may wonder what we can learn from testing such small files, but this is standard practice for benchmarking. Comparing small files, this allows us to evaluate server performance independent of any network saturation issues.

The Results

OpenLiteSpeed performed 6X better than nginx and 29X better than Apache when serving small static files over HTTP/2.

h2load   -n 100000 -c 100 -t 1 -T 5 -m 10 -H  'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' /1kstatic.html

Try It Yourself

It’s easy to verify these results. Simply visit http2benchmark.or, and follow the methodology laid out there to run the exact same tests in your own favorite environment.