hpricot vs. nokogiri: Parsing XML .......... Set 1 mean: 5.368 s Set 1 std dev: 0.052 Set 2 mean: 0.703 s Set 2 std dev: 0.054 p.value: 1.0825088224469e-05 W: 100.0 The difference (-86.9%) IS statistically significant. hpricot vs. nokogiri: Searching with XPath .......... Set 1 mean: 3.590 s Set 1 std dev: 0.250 Set 2 mean: 0.676 s Set 2 std dev: 0.055 p.value: 1.0825088224469e-05 W: 100.0 The difference (-81.2%) IS statistically significant. hpricot vs. nokogiri: Searching with CSS .......... Set 1 mean: 4.237 s Set 1 std dev: 0.061 Set 2 mean: 2.463 s Set 2 std dev: 0.069 p.value: 1.0825088224469e-05 W: 100.0 The difference (-41.9%) IS statistically significant.