WordPress Benchmark

WordPress HTTP/2 Benchmark

OpenLiteSpeed vs. nginx vs. Apache

Now more than ever, HTTP/2 performance is a critical consideration, when choosing a web server for your WordPress site. With that in mind, we put OpenLiteSpeed’s HTTP/2 implementation head to head with those of nginx and Apache. Which server should you trust to deliver your WordPress content quickly and efficiently? Spoiler alert: it’s OpenLiteSpeed!

Caching is important for WordPress, so we paired each server with the best caching solution available for that server: LiteSpeed Cache for OpenLiteSpeed, FastCGI Cache for nginx, and W3 Total Cache for Apache.

The Results

OpenLiteSpeed performed 5X better than nginx and 13X better than Apache when serving a cached WordPress site over HTTP/2.

h2load -n 100000 -c 100 -t 1 -T 5 -m 10 -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' https://wordpress.benchmark.com/

Try It Yourself

Feeling skeptical? It’s easy to verify these results! We followed the methodology laid out on http2benchmark.org, which means you could run the exact same tests in your own environment and see for yourself.