Google Compute Engine Web Test
g1-small - May 08 2016

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Provider Plan Cost per month Disk space (GB) Memory (GB) Num Cores
Google Compute Engine g1-small $13.13 10 1.7 1

Test Results

The Web performance test lasts for the whole duration of the trial (several days) and reports the response time and system metrics of a popular website running a Ruby on Rails application backed by a Postgres database.

Web Performance

Daily Web Metrics

Response time

CPU utilization



Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
May 08 2016 137251 35 66 120 6 92.24% 0.00% 0.11%
May 09 2016 151026 34 70 130 5 91.97% 0.00% 0.10%
May 10 2016 175951 34 70 120 5 90.83% 0.00% 0.11%
May 11 2016 163904 36 80 140 6 90.45% 0.00% 0.13%
May 12 2016 206480 33 76 130 6 89.51% 0.00% 0.16%
May 13 2016 158370 34 76 130 5 91.34% 0.00% 0.22%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
May 07 2016 1138773 34 72 130 6 91.18% 0.00% 0.16%

Web Performance comparison


Web performance is measured locally on the VPS and includes Rails app response times as well as system metrics.

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