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FrankenPHP bills itself as “The Modern PHP App Server” and provides a single-process solution to running PHP. Its worker mode allows to greatly increase the performance of cleanly developed applications that are compatible with it by saving on framework bootstrapping time. Unfortunately, not every application is compatible with worker mode. Depending on the amount of global state kept by the application, updating it for worker mode is not always easy.

Welcoming bots and crawlers to your site is a necessary part of operating any web application or e-commerce store. That relationship turns sour when they engage in excessive behavior and adversely affect the performance for regular users. Our customer Greenstories experienced a 10-fold slowdown in performance and a failure rate of 6% over a few hours when a crawler visited their store and messed with the Shopware cart functionality.

How does your Shopware 6 store’s PHP backend performance compare to other operators of Shopware in general? To answer this question, we have aggregated and anonymized performance data from over 200 Shopware 6 stores over the last quarter and computed benchmark numbers to compare to for the most important page types.