Drupal 8 Commerce Performance Benchmarks

Performance and scale for all levels of digital commerce.

Drupal Commerce is a fantastic open source ecommerce platform, but there is a common misconception that it is lacking when it comes to performance and scalability. This is not true!

Drupal Commerce is extremely fast and is more than capable of scaling from small businesses all the way to enterprise-level ecommerce. We have proof, and it’s right here for you to view.

About the report

Shawn McCabe, Acro Commerce’s CTO, tested Drupal Commerce on various AWS configurations, from single-server setups to multi-server configurations.

He ran simulated traffic through Drupal Commerce, mimicking actual traffic as closely as possible, testing concurrent users, site speed, transactions per second, and several other useful technical metrics.

The smallest server configuration tested flawlessly handled 130 concurrent users with a throughput of 13.59 transactions per second. On the other hand, the largest configuration could handle 52,000 concurrent users, with a throughput of 1,305.85 transactions per second.

The report goes further and includes how the tests were set up, their limitations and methodology, all of the server configuration details and, of course, the test results. This testing puts the performance and scalability question to rest, backed by hard data that anyone can reproduce. Drupal Commerce is a viable option for ecommerce that businesses of any size can use and grow with in the future.