NukeCops - GoogleTap Versions By the Numbers

There are quite a few versions of GoogleTap currently circulating at the moment. Since I was curious about the performance of them each, I ran some tests on nuke69.audioslaved.com to see exactly how the different versions timed for their page generation numbers. Which version came out on top you ask? There is no clear cut winner, it depends moreso on your wants and needs, though the page generation numbers slightly lean towards GT-NExtGEn, I welcome you to look at all closely and make your own informed decision. This test was done on a barebones Nuke 6.9 site generating 10 page loads per index.php/html and the forums.html.

It would be extremely interesting to see the numbers on a much larger site with a few thousand members.

Here are my results coupled with what I believe are Pro's and Con's of each version, the number of conversions that were called to take place during the page load and the average of the 10 page load generation times for the index.php/html and the forums.html.

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GT-NExtGEn Beta 0.4/0.5: (Available at http://gt.audioslaved.com)

Installation: Easy

Features (Pro/Con):
- ~98% Tapped Core Modules
- Tapped Per Module (Grabs Tap for module when module is called, If no tap for module, turns tap off until next module call)
- Tested Specifically for Nuke6.0, Nuke6.5-6.8, Nuke6.9, Nuke7.0
- Minimal Block Support, blocks not converted on fly (See Development)

Development: All ampersands are expressed as & within header.php and as & in .htaccess (No more & problems) Block Converter is available to automatically convert source code of blocks based on default/core modules. Help is available via GT-NExtGEn Development Center

index.html
0.152 Seconds, 0.154 Seconds, 0.173 Seconds, 0.152 Seconds, 0.163 Seconds
0.153 Seconds, 0.153 Seconds, 0.155 Seconds, 0.164 Seconds, 0.153 Seconds
Total queries executed per page load: 15 conversion queries
index.php/html Average Load Time (Per 10 Page Loads): 0.1572 Seconds

forums.html
0.259 Seconds, 0.254 Seconds, 0.245 Seconds, 0.261 Seconds, 0.252 Seconds
0.242 Seconds, 0.243 Seconds, 0.239 Seconds, 0.243 Seconds, 0.251 Seconds
Total queries executed per page load: 43 conversion queries
forums.html Average Load Time (Per 10 Page Loads): 0.2489 Seconds

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CVS GoogleTap: (Available at http://cvs.nukecops.com)

Installation: Easy

Features (Pro/Con):
- ~45% Tapped Core Modules
- Tapped Per Page Load (Same queries run whether module is tapped or not)
- Made specifically to work with BNC Bundle 6.5-6.8 (To My knowledge, have not seen documentation/posts to say otherwise)
- Blocks converted on the Fly (Minimal support due to percentage of each module tapped) Issues with right block conversions

Development: Tricky ampersand problems with blocks and modules (is it & or & hmmm), help is available via Nukecops GoogleTap Forum

index.php
0.162 Seconds, 0.183 Seconds, 0.161 Seconds, 0.161 Seconds, 0.163 Seconds
0.159 Seconds, 0.163 Seconds, 0.163 Seconds, 0.160 Seconds, 0.161 Seconds
Total queries executed per page load: 51 conversion queries
index.php/html Average Load Time (Per 10 Page Loads): 0.1636 Seconds

forums.html
0.250 Seconds, 0.243 Seconds, 0.257 Seconds, 0.241 Seconds, 0.255 Seconds
0.250 Seconds, 0.254 Seconds, 0.256 Seconds, 0.243 Seconds, 0.245 Seconds
Total queries executed per page load: 51 conversion queries
forums.html Average Load Time (Per 10 Page Loads): 0.2494 Seconds

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10-22-03 GoogleTap Distro: (Available at http://nukecops.com/posts12457-0.html)

Installation: Moderate

Features (Pro/Con):
- ~85% Tapped Core Modules
- Tapped Per Page Load (Same queries run whether module is tapped or not)
- Tested Specifically with Nuke6.5 and BNC Bundle files
- Blocks Converted on the fly (Moderate support due to percentage of each module tapped) Issues with right block conversions
- Forums Tap inteferes with most third party forums modules.

Development: Tricky ampersand problems with blocks and modules (is it & or & hmmm). Help is available via NukeCops GoogleTap Forum

index.php/html
0.179 Seconds, 0.184 Seconds, 0.172 Seconds, 0.182 Seconds, 0.175 Seconds
0.183 Seconds, 0.183 Seconds, 0.181 Seconds, 0.176 Seconds, 0.182 Seconds
Total queries executed per page load: 107 conversion queries
index.php/html Average Load Time (Per 10 Page Loads): 0.1797

forums.html
0.278 Seconds, 0.285 Seconds, 0.268 Seconds, 0.265 Seconds, 0.267 Seconds
0.262 Seconds, 0.274 Seconds, 0.278 Seconds, 0.289 Seconds, 0.272 Seconds
Total queries executed per page load: 107 conversion queries
forums.html Average Load Time (Per 10 Page Loads): 0.2738

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These figures are based on a clean install of Nuke 6.9 using each version of GoogleTap available.
Forums on install contained only 1 post. 2 site members total, 1 news article and 1 admin message.
Main Menu was left at default block-Modules.php for cvs version of GT and 10-22-03 distro, but was changed to the block-GT_Modules.php Main Menu for GT-NExtGEn test. All other blocks were left intact for testing.

Testing of pages is based on 10 page loads in IE 6 browser (Location Waikiki, Hawaii, US) to nuke69.audioslaved.com (Location: Florida, US) of the index.php/html page and forums.html page. Times are indicative of server load at the time of testing (5 additional sites housed on server) and in no way represent what results will resemble on your server for your website.

I am looking for a guinea pig to run the same test on a larger site, so please email me if you are willing to sacrifice 10-15 minutes for this test. Thank you all.

-Bill (Audioslaved)