Show HN: I rebuilt my WP blog on React and Cosmic JS. It's now 10x faster
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Document Length is much bigger with WP. Is it compression being off in Apache/PHP or caching in React?
Update: ok, compression is off in Apache. Hmm, I'm not sure ab is a good benchmark tool here. Your React combo is asynchronously pulling data while WP is mostly synchronous. To be fair, you need to check "full loading" times.
WPT Apache: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151027_GJ_d747f0a207fa4b72...
WTP React+: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151027_83_f3b299e3ab7957a4...
Fully Load for Apache is: 3.0xs
Fully Load for React+ is: 3.7xs
I can also see that you haven't done basic optimization on Apache (KeepAlive off, compression off, MaxClients, etc).