Google Compute Engine Web Test
g1-small - Sep 15 2014

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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
Sep 15 2014 122498 54 140 290 6 90.79% 0.00% 0.15%
Sep 16 2014 139626 57 160 320 6 89.17% 0.00% 0.13%
Sep 17 2014 114949 54 135 290 6 90.92% 0.00% 0.14%
Sep 18 2014 191209 44 100 240 5 88.16% 0.00% 0.12%
Sep 19 2014 227286 47 115 260 5 85.45% 0.00% 0.17%
Sep 20 2014 120145 49 115 250 5 91.15% 0.00% 0.14%
Sep 21 2014 132204 51 125 260 6 90.62% 0.00% 0.10%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Sep 15 2014 1047917 50 120 270 5 89.46% 0.00% 0.13%

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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