Comments on: WordPress GSoC2008

By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:53:06 +0000

Very nice, I am looking forward to this years’ participation.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:18:49 +0000

Just received the email letting us know that WordPress has been accepted into GSoC 2008!

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:31:06 +0000

Hi Emily, I think that brings the conversation full circle. I’m sure if you are able to publish in details the environment and measurements, then the community will step up with recommendations.

By: Emily VanBuren

Emily VanBuren — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:08:11 +0000

I meant that under generic stress/load-testing, do you believe that WP is faster (i.e. more req/sec) than Drupal & co.?

I admit, I’ve only recently foraged into the performance sector, but what my recent experience has shown is that WP is significantly slower than some of the other popular CMS/Blog scripts/engines out there on the market.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:45:54 +0000

Emily sorry, what benchmarks are you referring to?

By: Emily VanBurne

Emily VanBurne — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:13:03 +0000

Lloyd, does this mean that in your *completely frank* opinion, WP outperforms Drupal, et. al. in benchmarks?

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:04:57 +0000

Emily, that is a very interesting result. I’m sure if you are able to publish in details the environment and measurements, then the community will step up with recommendations.

“Performance tuning PHP 5.2 on IIS is an interesting article”, though the performance tuning there seems specifically focused only on PHP, and only on IIS. An important, but incomplete equation.

By: Emily VanBuren

Emily VanBuren — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:45:23 +0000

Well I recently became the admin of a server farm for a private company with a number of various web scripts in large quantities, and I found WordPress to be one of the bottlenecks.

It’s plenty fast for normal operation; but if you’ve got lots of blogs or a blog with many visitors, it’s a bit of a problem.

These benchmarks are the closest (ratio-wise) to what I’m seeing:
http://www.iis-aid.com/article.....5_2_on_iis

I know that benchmark was on Windows, but on our server farm WordPress is about the same performance distance away from Drupal and about that much better than Gallery2 (which is incredibly scary).

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:31:35 +0000

That WordPress has bad performance.

By: Emily VanBuren

Emily VanBuren — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:27:41 +0000

Which part of it, Lloyd? About it being bad performing or about it being better than phpBB and Gallery2?

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:51:15 +0000

Emily, your perspective about WordPress and performance, I don’t think is shared by most. What do you base it on?

By: Emily VanBuren

Emily VanBuren — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:20:10 +0000

The project I’m most interested in has got to be “Performance” (as generic of an “idea” that may be).

Totally anxious to see what the contributors-to-be and the mentor (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi according to the GSoC ‘08 page) can cook up!

People are always complaining that WP’s performance is pit-bottom; but that’s just because they haven’t seen just how bad other scripts like phpBB, Gallery2, etc. are… then again, it’d totally rock if this summer WP can over-take Drupal, Movable Type, and the rest when it comes to high performance!

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:24:41 +0000

Thanks Jeffro2pt0. I submitted our application last Friday. We should find out on Monday if our application is accepted.

I’m really hoping we are. I think our application is much stronger this year. Last year the results were great, but I think we are on a path to even even better ones this year!

If someone is interesting in being a WordPress mentor please do contact me. Summer starts early again this year