Modx Header Speed

Howdy ho,

Brand new modx user as of today I’ve been using Etomite for years now, but thought I’d give modx a whirl on a new site I’m building - am liking it so far.

Anyway, I’m a bit obsessed with page load time, so one of the first things I did is compare load time for a basic page loaded in modx, etomite and as a standard HTML page.

Modx *appeares* to be adding a 0.3 second load on the headers. I’ve tried various settings, and disabled the HTTP headers but getting the same results.

I’m using the same HTML template & content, with no snippets called.

In my very non-scientic tests, I’m seeing these average times:

Basic HTML Page
resolve 0.7 ms 2%
connect 14.0 ms 44%
headers 13.7 ms 43%
body 3.7 ms 11%
Total: 32ms


Etomite Site
resolve 17.7 ms 33%
connect 13.9 ms 26%
headers 19.1 ms 36%
body 2.7 ms 5%
Total: 53ms

Modx Site
resolve 0.1 ms 0%
connect 13.7 ms 4%
headers 0.32 s 95%
body 2.1 ms 1%
Total: 0.34s

I’ve spent ages tweaking my VPS to get the best performance from it, hence the ultra fast page load times........though I need to work out why modx is adding the extra load.

Running nginx & the revolution build.

I would really appreciate if anyone got any thoughts ideas on this as it looks like a smart CMS to use?

Cheers
Ben.

You do realize Revo is a totally different application than Evolution, which still has a healthy chunk of its Etomite origins. Comparing Revo to Etomite is like comparing apples to raisins.

Howdy

Cheers for the info.

Any pointers to see if I can ID the header loading "issue" then (I accept a 0.3 extra load time isnt an issue for most people).

Thanks
Ben.

Interesting exploration Ben. Look forward to see what you find.

Howdy

Well, the only difference in header information between modx & eto (sorry I nothing else to compare it too, eto is the only cms I use) is the cookies.

Eto sets 2 cookies, modx sets a PHPSESSID cookie..........I wouldnt have thought this was is.

Think I’ll install Evolution when I get 5mins and run some tests against each other.

Cheers
Ben.

I don’t think it’s the headers themselves per se, but the processes going on behind the scene that generates the headers.