Server load test

  • A $5/month DigitalOcean server handled 10,000 requests/second for plain HTML.
  • Strong HTTPS reduced capacity to about 4,000 requests/second.
  • Google PageSpeed module dropped throughput to 150 clients/second.
  • Brotli compression at maximum level further reduced it to 75 clients/second but significantly shrank file sizes.
14 May 2016 · 2 min · Stefano Chiodino