Google Compute Engine Web Test
g1-small - Feb 15 2015

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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
Feb 15 2015 147571 55 140 360 8 88.67% 0.00% 0.35%
Feb 16 2015 164760 49 110 280 6 88.35% 0.00% 0.18%
Feb 17 2015 157668 53 130 360 7 88.20% 0.00% 0.24%
Feb 18 2015 172753 52 130 340 7 87.53% 0.00% 0.42%
Feb 19 2015 143120 54 140 380 7 88.57% 0.00% 0.44%
Feb 20 2015 186258 51 130 340 6 86.80% 0.00% 0.38%
Feb 21 2015 169468 53 130 380 7 87.55% 0.00% 0.46%
Feb 22 2015 139554 53 140 360 7 89.24% 0.00% 0.62%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Feb 16 2015 1130444 52 130 340 7 88.04% 0.00% 0.40%

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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