Benchmarks: CodeIgniter vs. Other Frameworks

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How fast is CodeIgniter compared to other PHP frameworks? Following frameworks have been compared:

• CodeIgniter vs. Lucinda
• CodeIgniter vs. Symfony
• CodeIgniter vs. Laravel

A series of ApacheBench stress tests were conducted on my machine, reproductible on your own if you follow methodology page. Subject of testing is raw MVC performance (routing, controlling, templating), as detailed here:

1. speed of answering to requests for HTML resources using framework's native templating engine (eg: )
2. speed of answering to requests for JSON resources using framework's native JSON renderer

CodeIgniter vs. Lucinda

Based on raw ApacheBench results obtained here, it is clear that Lucinda is times faster on all criteria measured.

• Requests per second:
  

  Rendering	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1	Lucinda Framework 3.2.0
  HTML	1419.98	12510.76
  JSON	1389.03	13830.21

  Results show that Lucinda is 8.8 times faster in answering to HTML requests and 10 times faster in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1		Lucinda Framework 3.2.0
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	6	6	1	1
  66	6	6	1	1
  75	7	7	1	1
  80	9	9	1	1
  90	11	11	1	1
  95	12	13	1	1
  98	16	17	1	1
  99	17	18	1	1
  100	44	54	13	19

  Results show that in 95% of cases Lucinda is 12 times faster answering to HTML requests and 13 times faster for JSON requests

CodeIgniter vs. Symfony

Based on raw ApacheBench results obtained here, it is clear that Symfony is times faster on all criteria measured.

• Requests per second:
  

  Rendering	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1	Symfony Framework 5.2.99
  HTML	1419.98	3175.6
  JSON	1389.03	3499.42

  Results show that Symfony is 2.2 times faster in answering to HTML requests and 2.5 times faster in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1		Symfony Framework 5.2.99
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	6	6	3	2
  66	6	6	3	3
  75	7	7	4	3
  80	9	9	4	4
  90	11	11	5	4
  95	12	13	5	5
  98	16	17	7	6
  99	17	18	8	7
  100	44	54	26	23

  Results show that in 95% of cases Symfony is 2.4 times faster answering to HTML requests and 2.6 times faster for JSON requests

CodeIgniter vs. Laravel

Based on raw ApacheBench results obtained here, it is clear that Laravel is times slower on all criteria measured.

• Requests per second:
  

  Rendering	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1	Laravel Framework 8.5.16
  HTML	1419.98	346.78
  JSON	1389.03	153.22

  Results show that Laravel is 4.1 times slower in answering to HTML requests and 9.1 times slower in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1		Laravel Framework 8.5.16
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	6	6	11	11
  66	6	6	14	13
  75	7	7	17	16
  80	9	9	19	19
  90	11	11	22	22
  95	12	13	29	30
  98	16	17	47	1337
  99	17	18	768	2547
  100	44	54	1986	3973

  Results show that in 95% of cases Laravel is 2.4 times slower answering to HTML requests and 2.3 times slower for JSON requests