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I just ran two speed tests since there aren't any benchmarks provided

1. First Test is using http://www.webpagetest.org/

Results shortfin.io:88 - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130806_71_13HK/

  First View: 1.945s
  Repeat View: 1.632s
Results shortfin.io - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130806_QV_13F7/

  First View	2.099s	
  Repeat View	0.084s
2. Second Test is using Apache Bench

Results (Best results of 3 runs): ab -n 100 -c 100 http://shortfin.io:88/

  Time taken for tests:   12.125 seconds
  Requests per second:    8.25 [#/sec] (mean)
  Time per request:       12124.501 [ms] (mean)
  Time per request:       121.245 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
  Transfer rate:          38.46 [Kbytes/sec] received

  Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
  Connect:      210 1114 1517.2    360    4041
  Processing:  5017 8407 2034.0   8715   11762
  Waiting:      169 1084 3054.8    188   11408
  Total:       9057 9521 1068.7   9058   12123
Results (Best results of 3 runs): ab -n 100 -c 100 http://shortfin.io/

  Time taken for tests:   5.790 seconds
  Requests per second:    17.27 [#/sec] (mean)
  Time per request:       5789.949 [ms] (mean)
  Time per request:       57.899 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
  Transfer rate:          82.97 [Kbytes/sec] received

  Connection Times (ms)
                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
  Connect:      171  249  35.7    263     290
  Processing:   172 1798 2345.5    212    5524
  Waiting:      170 1055 1825.1    212    4949
  Total:        344 2047 2368.2    469    5789



You need some better hardware

$ ab -n 100 -c 100 http://shortfin.io/

Requests per second: 1363.85 [#/sec] (mean)


Benchmarking a fast remote static server is pointless.

You're basically benchmarking your internet connection.




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