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I don't think it's fair to say that Drupal is faster than Wordpress by just looking at the req/sec. According to https://wiki.php.net/phpng https://wiki.php.ne

by erming 12y ago

I don't think it's fair to say that Drupal is faster than Wordpress by just looking at the req/sec. According to https://wiki.php.net/phpng https://wiki.php.net/phpng, they benchmarked against Wordpress 3.6 (the current version is 3.9). I couldn't find anything about the Drupal benchmark, but it could be a simple "Hello world" for all we know.

will_work4tears 12y ago
Drupal is pretty slow if you disable the default caching, and sometimes even with the caching (depends on modules loaded) - part of the problem is Drupal's table bloat. I swear a naked install has 100+ tables (and with a few plugins and a few fields enabled, has 250+ tables - so you end up with tens and hundreds of queries per page load).
- SDGT 12y ago
  Varnish fixes everything. Drupal's big two issues are bootstrapping drupal, because all those module hooks stack up quick, and the sometimes large amount of queries run to generate a page. Drupal 8 has gotten better about not loading half of the world when a blog post is loaded, but 7 is just a wall of functions.
- Domenic_S 12y ago
  You seem to be mistakenly thinking that more tables by definition always == more queries. That isn't the case. A bunch of those tables rarely get queried. I really don't understand people's aversion to database tables. I have a join, the world is ending! Pay attention to your indexes and 9 times out of 10 everything will be fine. For that 1 other time, there's Varnish.
brokentone 12y ago
Performance hasn't been a priority for WP in the last several releases. WP 3.3 gave a very nice bump, but no much since then.