Joomla's efficiency on PHP 8.3 has reached 342 RPS, and that's almost a 30 percent improvement

At the beginning of 2024, tests of popular frameworks like PHP and CMS were updated. The engines were selected for the test based on market share, popularity, current trends, number of sites, and a couple of other factors.

The test’s participants were:

Joomla, Laravel, WordPress, Typo3, Craft CMS, Statamic, WooCommerce, Symfony, OpenCart, Drupal, and CodeIgniter.    

It should be noted here that all frameworks and CMSs were tested on default settings.  All engines have a different number of checks, as well as requests to the database if we talk about the default settings and this should be taken into consideration.

The main page in Joomla includes the selected materials. Thus, there is a selection of these materials, checking access rights, and other processes.

Visually identical pages can have a variable workload. If in Joomla we change the type of the main page to "blank page", where there will be no connection to the database, it will lead to a significant increase in speed.

Engines were tested on the following versions 7.4, and 8.1-8.3. In addition, it is important to mention one more indicator - request per second or RPS. It denotes the requests for data per second from the application without taking into account the cache. 

Test results

Joomla version 4.3.3; 8,111,000 bytes and the main page is tested.  

Results:

PHP 8.2 - 265 req/s.

PHP 8.1 - 274 req/s.

PHP 8.3 - 341 req/s.

As a result, Joomla on PHP 8.3 has an efficiency of 30 percent. 

Wordpress 6.4.2; 84,111,000 bytes and the home page is tested.

Results:

PHP 8.2 - 158 req/s.

PHP 8.1 - 153 req/s

PHP 8.3 - 169 req/s.

PHP 7.4 - 149 req/s.

Symfony 6.3.0; 559,000 bytes and the home page is tested.

Results:

PHP 8.2 - 997 req/s.

PHP 8.1 - 931 req/s

PHP 8.3 - 1182 req/s.  

OpenCart 4.0.2.2; 33,014,000 bytes and the home page is tested.

Results:

PHP 8.2 - 154 req/s.

PHP 8.1 - 151 req/s

PHP 8.3 - 164 req/s.  

Drupal 10.11; 19,102,000 bytes and the home page is tested.

Results:

PHP 8.2 - 941 req/s.

PHP 8.1 - 922 req/s

PHP 8.3 - 1432 req/s.

Laravel 10.16.1; 27,517,000 bytes and the main page is tested.

Results:

PHP 8.2 - 670 req/s.

PHP 8.1 - 611 req/s.

PHP 8.3 - 925 req/s.