PHP Vitals

Description

How fast is your web host? Dozens of PHP speed tests, 1 overall grade: The easy way to compare hosting performance.

Bringing Transparency to Your Web Hosts PHP Performance

The faster your websites run, the better. Better SEO, better UX, better returns on your effort. But in any PHP-based system (including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and many others) theres an important performance factor thats hard for you to see and mostly beyond your control. Its your web hosting. How fast does PHP run on the infrastructure that your web host provides?

PHP Vitals gives you a simple way to find out.

A Free, Quick and Easy Speed Test

In a minute or two, PHP Vitals analyses exactly how well your server performs on dozens of different tests of PHP performance. When you run PHP Vitals youll see an overall grade, and you can see where your web host belongs on the PHP Vitals leaderboard.

You cant see your server hardware. You dont know how many others are sharing your resources. You dont know if your hosting is rate-limited, over-provisioned, or dependent on ancient CPUs. PHP Vitals lifts the lid on what youre really getting for your money.

What Gets Tested

PHP Vitals focuses on base PHP functions. Base categories are:
– php_features
– math
– string
– array
– crypto
– file
– serialization

Specific operations that are tested include:
– PHP Class (getter/setter).
– Public properties and methods.
– Simple math operations.
– Complex math operations.
– String concatenations.
– Regular expressions (regex).
– Functions: explode, strpos.
– Operations: Array sorting, set, unset, copy, and others.
– Password hashing.
– MD5 hashing.
– SHA256 hashing.

There are no MySQL or database benchmarks included.

Features

PHP Vitals suite of PHP performance benchmarking tests usually takes only 1-2 minutes to run. The tests give you live performance data.

Each time you run PHP Vitals youll see a breakdown of individual test data and an overall grade (A+ to F). Test data is objective, for example the time taken for each test. Grades are based on the overall time taken. The subjective grading scale is likely to change over time (e.g. an A in 2025 is unlikely to still be an A in 2027).

With the option to submit test results to the PHP Vitals leaderboard, you can let developers around the world see a summary of your results, and the hosting provider that it came from. Sharing is optional and no personal data is collected, shared or stored.

PHP Vitals data is presented through a beautiful and responsive admin interface. Run and share tests on demand, build up a history of performance grades over time, and export detailed JSON reports containing system information, test results, and PHP configuration settings.

Usage on WordPress

PHP Vitals is very straightforward. Install the plugin, open “PHP Vitals” from the main menu in your WordPress admin dashboard, and click Run Benchmark.

External services

This plugin connects to PHP Vitals for:

• Benchmark test metadata (names, categories, iteration counts) from /api/tests test code runs locally in the plugin
• Grade thresholds from /api/grades
• Hosting type/cost labels from /api/options
• Optional leaderboard submission to /api/benchmark when sharing is enabled

When leaderboard sharing is enabled, each completed benchmark may submit:

• Overall run time and grade
• PHP and WordPress versions
• Server software and PHP memory limit
• Hosting type and monthly cost (if configured)
• Per-test timing output from the run

No personal account data or site content is collected.

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