How to use k6 to benchmark hosting providers with Kevin Ohashi (k6 Office Hours #18)
In this office hours, Nicole and Floor are joined by Kevin Ohashi, founder of Review Signal LLC. He has used k6 to do performance benchmarks for WordPress hosting providers, and has published both his results and his methodology.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro to Kevin and Review Signal
5:05 Approach for benchmarking hosting providers
18:43 Tools used for testing: k6 and LoadStorm
21:24 Kevin's k6 script and setup
34:58 Getting embedded resources, recording, and requesting in parallel
46:00 Other tools Kevin used for benchmarking
51:10 How to make seemingly subjective aspects of performance objective
WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks: https://wphostingbenchmarks.com/
Benchmarks methodology: https://wphostingbenchmarks.com/metho...
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Nicole on Twitter: / n_vanderhoeven
Floor on Twitter: / floordrees
Kevin on Twitter: / kevinohashi
Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6