How does Caddy perform on low traffic sites?

[eva2000 (George)]

@Chad_Thiele

For sites with maybe 100-200 concurrent connections, how does Caddy compare with nginx?

I’ve posted my benchmarks you can check out as well at

• Can I use Caddy for a high-traffic site? - #21 by eva2000
• part 1 https://community.centminmod.com/threads/caddy-http-2-server-benchmarks.5170/63
• part 2 https://community.centminmod.com/threads/caddy-http-2-server-benchmarks.5170/#post-343464
• caddy and http.cache proxy Announce: New http cache plugin - #10 by eva2000

How quick ? Depends if you’re looking at TTFB, first meaningful paint and other metrics which make up initial perceived page load times versus actual page load times. But as @matt stated also do you own tests to compare. I recommend webpagetest.org for doing page load tests across several geographic regions. You can also leverage webpagetest.org’s API to script testing as well which is what I do so I can see how incremental tweaks and tuning affect page load speeds.

@matt

If you feel you are qualified to do so, I suggest you run your own benchmarks: brew install wrk (on a Mac, for example) and then use wrk to compare.

There’s some many varieties/forks of wrk but do any actually support HTTP/2 based HTTPS ? Probably to test HTTP/2 based HTTPS, to use nghttp2’s h2load load tester https://nghttp2.org/documentation/h2load-howto.html ?