> The speed difference for an individual page load might not be that much for a properly optimized site, but the overall resource usage will be much lower.
Is that what you believe or do you have benchmark results?
I work helping people set up things like caching. On the three sites I looked at today, caching plugins had an immediate and positive effect.
That serving static files use less resources than firing up PHP should hardly be surprising.
Sure, mod_lsapi and FastCGI are fast, and opcache is a godsend, but static files are still going to be faster than doing multiple MySQL queries, triggering plugins, rendering the HTML, doing whatever post-processing the plugins do, and then serving the result.
That serving static files use less resources than firing up PHP should hardly be surprising.
Sure, mod_lsapi and FastCGI are fast, and opcache is a godsend, but static files are still going to be faster than doing multiple MySQL queries, triggering plugins, rendering the HTML, doing whatever post-processing the plugins do, and then serving the result.