Google Compute Engine Web Test
g1-small - Feb 23 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 23 2015 168402 54 150 340 7 87.16% 0.00% 0.57%
Feb 24 2015 196683 53 140 300 7 85.70% 0.00% 0.73%
Feb 25 2015 177319 55 150 320 7 86.40% 0.00% 0.75%
Feb 26 2015 195062 52 140 320 7 86.08% 0.00% 0.69%
Feb 27 2015 170185 53 130 300 7 87.34% 0.00% 0.72%
Feb 28 2015 177506 51 120 280 6 87.14% 0.00% 0.64%
Mar 01 2015 127872 53 130 280 7 89.64% 0.00% 0.71%

Weekly Web Metrics


Day Num requests Average Total ms P95 Total ms P99 Total ms Average Db ms Cpu idle Cpu steal Iowait
Feb 23 2015 1211203 53 140 300 7 87.09% 0.00% 0.69%

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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