Wordpress logged in user performance test with apache bench

wordpress-ab.sh

#!/bin/bash

# For cygwin, APACHEBENCH could be /usr/sbin/ab2, else ab will suffice on linux/unix systems.
APACHEBENCH=ab
COOKIE_JAR="ab-cookie-jar"
USERNAME="foo@bar.com"
PASSWORD="password"
HOST="127.0.0.1"
BASEURL="http://$host"
LOGINURL="$baseurl/wp-login.php"

ADMINURL="$baseurl/wp-admin"

POSTDATA="log=$user&pwd=$password&rememberme=forever&wp-submit=Log%20In&redirect_to=$adminurl/"

[ -e $COOKIE_JAR ] && rm $COOKIE_JAR

# this will login to wp and download the session cookie
curl --insecure --connect-timeout 60 --cookie-jar $COOKIE_JAR --data $POSTDATA $LOGINURL

[ -e $COOKIE_JAR ] && echo "WP cookie created: $COOKIE_JAR"

# now you have a WP session cookie!
# Pipe Audit: print file, ignore first 4 lines of curls cookie jar, 
# only print records tab delimited 6 and 7 from the jar, convert newlines for later header injection.
COOKIES=$(cat $COOKIE_JAR | tail -n +5 | awk '{print $6"="$7}' | tr '\n' ';')

echo "Cookies String is:"
echo $COOKIES
echo "=================="

echo "Testing Posts:"
$APACHEBENCH -n 20 -c 2 -H "Cookie: $COOKIES" $ADMINURL/edit.php

echo "Testing Pages:"
$APACHEBENCH -n 20 -c 2 -H "Cookie: $COOKIES" $ADMINURL/edit.php?post_type=page

echo "Testing Front Page:"
$APACHEBENCH -n 20 -c 2 $BASEURL/