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Test website performance

I have a PHP and MySQL website using the XAMPP server.

I was just wondering is there any software, online websites etc that can test (network performance, load balance, stress tests etc) for websites that are running on a localhost (local environment)?

Thanks for any help

Solution

  • You can't test network speed of a site on localhost, since it's going to be instant since it's local. The only thing you can test is how fast PHP can execute and there is a great extension for PHP called php_xdebug. It will tell you how long each function call takes to execute.

    You can view the results using tools such as WinCacheGrind and view which function is taking up all your time.

    For the network stuff, you need to first deploy your website and then run the tests for load balancing, stress testing, etc.

    From my experience, most of the delay from websites is from PHP and not the web server (unless you are on a shared host).