Design & Implementation of Jmeter Framework for Performance Comparison in Ruby, PHP, & Python Web Applications

The absence of thebroadperformance comparison for websites in multiple frameworks has been a major deterrentin this area. There is a need of preemptive charting which then can be referred to before selecting a framework for web development. The use of best practices is crucial and worthwhile, albeitthe performance of an application can’t be emasculated. While the former, in general,employsDRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) approach, thus reducing the management of the plethora of code; the later, on contrary,deals with minimizing the perceived delay in page load time. In this paper, we investigate the performance of Yii & Symfony, which are PHP frameworks, Django, which is a Python framework and Ruby on Rails, which is a Ruby framework.Different applications are developed for different frameworks, but each with a unique user interface. Also, each application shares a common MySQL database. These results are further used to conduct performance comparative analysis, which isto identify that which among other frameworks perform better in terms of 5 KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators). At the end, it concludes that in terms of Response Time, Throughput. Efficiency& Latency,Django outperformed other frameworksbasedon the number of samples processed over time. On the other hand,Rails utilized the least CPU Processing among other frameworks for the same kind of task. It was also found that the PHP applications – Symfony & YII – took the least number of bytes to process the same task in contrast to other frameworks. In-terms of KPI’s, Django application was found to be more efficient in comparison to other frameworks in the most scenarios.