Someone asked recently how SlickStack WordPress compares to OpenLiteSpeed WordPress, so I ran this benchmark.
The Result
OpenLiteSpeed WordPress Stack performed 6X better than SlickStack when serving a cached WordPress site over HTTP/2.
Result table
Example Test Command
Parameters
Server Environment
OpenLiteSpeed server hardware:
SlickStack server hardware:
Network:
Platform:
Software information
The Result
OpenLiteSpeed WordPress Stack performed 6X better than SlickStack when serving a cached WordPress site over HTTP/2.
- OLS WordPress Stack = 21669.93 Request per second
- SlickStack WordPress = 3397.89 Request per second
Result table
Code:
req/s Traffic finished in succeeded failed/errored
OLS WordPress 21669.93 65.17MB 461.47ms 10000 0
SlickStack WP 3397.89 61.01MB 2.94s 10000 0
Code:
h2load -n 100000 -c 100 -t 1 -T 5 -m 10 -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' https://wordpress.benchmark.com/
- -H Add/Override a header to the requests
- -n The number of total requests
- -c The number of concurrent clients
- -m The max concurrent streams to issue per client
- -t The number of native threads
- -T Specifies the maximum time that h2load is willing to keep a connection open
Server Environment
OpenLiteSpeed server hardware:
- 1 CPU (Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS) )
- 1 GB RAM
- Disk: NVMe SSD
SlickStack server hardware:
- 1 CPU (Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS) )
- 1 GB RAM
- Disk: NVMe SSD
Network:
- Traffic: 8.82 Gbits/sec
- Latency: 0.253 ms
Platform:
- Vultr High-Frequency Compute 1GB VM
Software information
- OLS WordPress Stack:
- Web Server: OpenLiteSpeed v1.7.12
- Cache: LiteSpeed Cache v4.2 with the default value
- WordPress v5.8
- WordPress theme: Twenty Twenty-One
- Certificate Algorithm: Let's Encrypt Signature algorithm sha256RSA
- SlickStack Stack:
- Web Server: Nginx v1.18.0
- Cache: FastCGI Cache
- WordPress v5.8
- WordPress theme: Twenty Twenty-One
- Certificate Algorithm: Let's Encrypt Signature algorithm sha256RSA
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