# desktoppr/wbench

It benchmarks websites, YO!

Repository: https://github.com/desktoppr/wbench
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wbench
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-10-02T05:29:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4959, "days_push": 2161, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1330, forks 56 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.046081+00:00)

## What it is
WBench is a Ruby command-line tool that benchmarks end-user website load times using the HTML5 performance timing API. It simulates first-time visitors with an empty cache by driving Chrome or Firefox via chromedriver, and can also report server response times for Rack apps.

## Use cases
- benchmark how fast my website loads for first-time visitors
- measure page load times from the command line
- compare load times in Chrome vs Firefox
- test mobile user agent page load performance
- measure rack app server response times
- run repeated load-time benchmarks programmatically in Ruby

## When to choose
- you want realistic browser-based load time measurements rather than synthetic HTTP benchmarks
- you need a simple CLI to repeatedly load a URL and get timing stats
- you want to benchmark with a cold cache simulating first-time visitors
- you prefer a Ruby API for automated benchmarking

## When to avoid
- you need load testing with many concurrent virtual users
- you need modern browser automation beyond Chrome/Firefox or headless options
- you need continuous performance monitoring or CI dashboards
- the project's last release was 2020 and may not work with current chromedriver versions

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: benchmarking, load-testing, cli
- domain: performance, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cli, windows
- tags: ruby-gem, browser-benchmarking, performance-timing-api, chromedriver, page-load-times, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- desktoppr/wbench (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.046081+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:45:31.012164+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/desktoppr/wbench (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.046081+00:00, sha e2d2814255a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.