I did some Apache Bench benchmarking on the old server against the new server. I don't really expect everyone to understand this but in general you want smaller numbers here to prove that the site is now loading faster. It definitely feels faster to me.
Tests used 100 requests with 10 concurrent users at a time.
OLD SERVER
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 209 237 32.2 223 364
Processing: 2937 10216 2481.0 9840 16519
Waiting: 967 8430 2483.6 7979 14808
Total: 3145 10453 2483.5 10064 16756
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 10064
66% 11253
75% 11799
80% 11973
90% 14032
95% 16358
98% 16500
99% 16756
100% 16756 (longest request)
NEW SERVER
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 208 221 10.4 217 246
Processing: 215 1890 354.2 1985 2032
Waiting: 215 1156 551.4 1126 2024
Total: 429 2111 355.5 2208 2248
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 2208
66% 2225
75% 2228
80% 2236
90% 2240
95% 2242
98% 2246
99% 2248
100% 2248 (longest request)
Also did a bunch of more manuals test, loading of the Online page ten times in the browser and recording the average load time and latency. Here's another good result!
OLD SERVER
Average page load: 2.1 sec
Average latency: 1.75 sec
NEW SERVER
Average page load: 0.57 sec
Average latency: 0.53 sec
PAGE LOADS SEEM TO NOW BE UNDER ONE SECOND YES THIS IS EXCELLENT I'M SO HAPPY
I must give a big thank you to Kira who spear headed this entire operation and who without I wouldn't have been able to complete this <3
04/21/2016 10:56:56
Goog job people
04/21/2016 11:32:47
04/21/2016 11:32:47
good work.
04/22/2016 05:32:15
04/22/2016 05:32:15