Twitter API Benchmarks

1000 Twitter API Requests (JSON)

$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://twitter.com/help/test.json
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking twitter.com (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
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Completed 900 requests
Completed 1000 requests
Finished 1000 requests


Server Software:        hi
Server Hostname:        twitter.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /help/test.json
Document Length:        4 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   19.272 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1029333 bytes
HTML transferred:       4004 bytes
Requests per second:    51.89 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       192.715 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       19.272 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          52.16 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       46   68 127.5     50    1042
Processing:    57  122 436.2     65    9062
Waiting:       56  117 434.5     64    9062
Total:        105  190 452.4    116    9110

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    116
  66%    118
  75%    121
  80%    123
  90%    138
  95%    407
  98%   1093
  99%   3114
 100%   9110 (longest request)

1000 Twitter API Requests (XML)

$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://twitter.com/help/test.xml
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking twitter.com (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Completed 400 requests
Completed 500 requests
Completed 600 requests
Completed 700 requests
Completed 800 requests
Completed 900 requests
Completed 1000 requests
Finished 1000 requests


Server Software:        hi
Server Hostname:        twitter.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /help/test.xml
Document Length:        13 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   23.379 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1037088 bytes
HTML transferred:       13000 bytes
Requests per second:    42.77 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       233.792 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       23.379 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          43.32 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       44   83 186.8     49    2057
Processing:    56  149 471.1     63    3107
Waiting:       55  141 468.6     63    3071
Total:        103  232 507.8    113    4058

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    113
  66%    116
  75%    118
  80%    119
  90%    131
  95%   1040
  98%   3108
  99%   3113
 100%   4058 (longest request)