Using h2load
Nghttp2#
NgHttp2 is the implementation of HTTP/2 in C.
The nghttp2 documentation is very good and the utilities include a h2load binary available on the cli.
Usage#
Usage is very similar to that of Apache Bench ab
$ h2load -n 10 -c 1 https://fixes.co.za/
starting benchmark...
spawning thread #0: 1 total client(s). 10 total requests
TLS Protocol: TLSv1.2
Cipher: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Server Temp Key: ECDH P-256 256 bits
Application protocol: h2
progress: 10% done
progress: 20% done
progress: 30% done
progress: 40% done
progress: 50% done
progress: 60% done
progress: 70% done
progress: 80% done
progress: 90% done
progress: 100% done
finished in 46.26s, 0.22 req/s, 66.84KB/s
requests: 10 total, 10 started, 10 done, 10 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 errored, 0 timeout
status codes: 10 2xx, 0 3xx, 0 4xx, 0 5xx
traffic: 3.02MB (3166069) total, 1.28KB (1310) headers (space savings 37.32%), 3.01MB (3161110) data
min max mean sd +/- sd
time for request: 3.37s 6.82s 4.61s 1.30s 80.00%
time for connect: 207.57ms 207.57ms 207.57ms 0us 100.00%
time to 1st byte: 447.55ms 447.55ms 447.55ms 0us 100.00%
req/s : 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.00 100.00%
It uses HTTP/2 by default but you can force HTTP/1.1 with --h1