Compare performance of user agent detecting classes used in PHP. Single and bulk reading. Compared: Mobile-Detect, ua-parser, browscap, UserAgentInfo, ...
The classes are all CPU bound (at least on my config with apache).
See results.full.txt for raw results.
- 'opcache' - that should be turned on on your production servers!
- ua list 'real' - real life user agent examples
- ua list 'fake' - user agents that will never match anything
- Mobile_Detect 'partial' - only
->isMobile()and->isTablet()(most typical usage) - Mobile_Detect 'full' - get as much information as you can
- ua-parser 'original' - current version
- ua-parser 'revised' - source json file replaced with php array file
- UserAgentInfo 'cache empty' - parse an unknown user agent in UserAgentInfo and then save it to cache
- UserAgentInfo 'from cache' - load UserAgentInfo and get user agent information from cache (most typical situation)
- 'lite', 'std', 'full' - different versions of the source file for browscap based parsers
- phpbrowscap max times - this is a time it takes to parse the downloaded source file into the cache file format; cache regeneration occurs rarely (default: every 5 days)
Each row is one test. Eeach test was performed on 2506 user agent strings.
Note: phpbrowscap mark2 is now merged into original phpbrowscap repository as a new version. So enjoy the speed boost!
| name | ver. | ua list | op cache | total (sec) | avg (ms) | min (ms) | 50% (ms) | 95% (ms) | 99% (ms) | max (ms) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Detect | partial | real | off | 6.0 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 5.9 |
| partial | real | on | 4.2 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 7.6 | |
| full | real | off | 16.3 | 6.5 | 0.8 | 6.6 | 9.3 | 12.6 | 16.9 | |
| full | real | on | 14.2 | 5.7 | 0.5 | 5.8 | 8.5 | 12.0 | 14.4 | |
| ua-parser | original | real | off | 3.4 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 11.9 |
| original | real | on | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 2.5 | |
| revised | real | off | 3.4 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 3.1 | |
| revised | real | on | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.2 | |
| browscap | lite | real | off | 9.6 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 3.7 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 27.9 |
| lite | real | on | 9.2 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 3.6 | 6.8 | 8.2 | 14.2 | |
| lite | fake | off | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.6 | |
| lite | fake | on | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 3.4 | |
| std | real | off | 58.9 | 23.5 | 2.9 | 23.7 | 28.0 | 30.3 | 37.7 | |
| std | real | on | 58.5 | 23.3 | 2.7 | 23.5 | 28.1 | 29.5 | 36.8 | |
| full | real | off | 57.8 | 23.1 | 2.8 | 23.2 | 27.8 | 29.3 | 35.8 | |
| full | real | on | 58.5 | 23.4 | 2.7 | 23.4 | 28.4 | 30.6 | 35.2 | |
| phpbrowscap original | std | real | off | 57.1 | 22.8 | 14.8 | 18.9 | 40.5 | 44.1 | 251.5 |
| std | real | on | 22.3 | 8.9 | 2.1 | 5.1 | 24.7 | 28.7 | 262.1 | |
| std | fake | off | 95.5 | 38.1 | 35.7 | 38.0 | 39.9 | 41.4 | 46.0 | |
| std | fake | on | 60.8 | 24.2 | 22.0 | 24.1 | 25.7 | 26.7 | 30.1 | |
| full | real | off | 62.2 | 24.8 | 17.4 | 20.9 | 41.4 | 46.2 | 296.2 | |
| full | real | on | 24.1 | 9.6 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 26.6 | 30.6 | 293.2 | |
| full | fake | off | 102.2 | 40.8 | 37.6 | 40.6 | 43.3 | 45.0 | 55.9 | |
| full | fake | on | 66.2 | 26.4 | 23.1 | 26.2 | 28.7 | 30.2 | 33.5 | |
| phpbrowscap mark2 | std | real | off | 17.8 | 7.1 | 5.1 | 6.8 | 8.8 | 11.6 | 278.3 |
| std | real | on | 4.1 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 5.7 | 281.2 | |
| std | fake | off | 19.4 | 7.7 | 6.2 | 7.7 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 11.0 | |
| std | fake | on | 5.9 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 23.7 | |
| full | real | off | 19.3 | 7.7 | 5.5 | 7.4 | 9.7 | 11.8 | 305.4 | |
| full | real | on | 4.2 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 5.8 | 312.0 | |
| full | fake | off | 21.3 | 8.5 | 6.7 | 8.5 | 9.4 | 9.9 | 37.5 | |
| full | fake | on | 6.0 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 24.0 | |
| UserAgentInfo | cache empty | real | off | 37.8 | 15.1 | 2.6 | 14.9 | 18.5 | 20.4 | 26.4 |
| cache empty | fake | off | 40.5 | 16.1 | 13.4 | 15.9 | 18.8 | 20.8 | 25.9 | |
| from cache | real | off | 6.6 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 26.0 | |
| cache empty | real | on | 18.7 | 7.5 | 0.5 | 7.3 | 10.9 | 13.0 | 29.4 | |
| cache empty | fake | on | 19.0 | 7.6 | 5.5 | 7.6 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 13.4 | |
| from cache | real | on | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 2.8 |
| name | ver. | ua list | total (sec) | avg (ms) | min (ms) | 50% (ms) | 95% (ms) | 99% (ms) | max (ms) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Detect | partial | real | 4.1 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 5.1 |
| full | real | 14.1 | 5.6 | 0.4 | 5.8 | 8.5 | 11.9 | 15.0 | |
| ua-parser | original | real | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 2.8 |
| revised | real | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 2.1 | |
| browscap | lite | real | 9.1 | 3.6 | 0.2 | 3.5 | 6.7 | 7.8 | 12.5 |
| lite | fake | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 3.4 | |
| std | real | 112.9 | 45.1 | 5.4 | 45.3 | 50.0 | 52.1 | 58.5 | |
| full | real | 108.6 | 43.3 | 5.1 | 43.6 | 48.1 | 50.4 | 60.9 | |
| phpbrowscap original | std | real | 24.1 | 9.6 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 42.7 | 47.0 | 269.2 |
| std | fake | 107.9 | 43.1 | 39.9 | 42.8 | 45.5 | 47.5 | 53.3 | |
| full | real | 24.2 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 43.3 | 47.4 | 285.2 | |
| full | fake | 109.4 | 43.7 | 39.7 | 43.3 | 47.5 | 50.7 | 78.1 | |
| phpbrowscap mark2 | std | real | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 307.4 |
| std | fake | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.2 | |
| full | real | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 328.8 | |
| full | fake | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.3 | |
| UserAgentInfo | cache empty | real | 15.3 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 9.3 | 10.9 | 17.9 |
| cache empty | fake | 18.8 | 7.5 | 3.8 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 20.7 | |
| from cache | real | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
- Add tests for many calls to the same thing during one script calls (not batch mode though, simulate standard user)? I'm not sure if it makes sense, I can just write 'caches calls locally': true / false.
- Add test for repeated found and not found user agent string.
- Add % of detected browsers. (as a separate test)
- Add most popular recent user agents to the file (not only those not detected by browscap! (www.vwp-online.de/ua.php + list for browscap + my list + ua-parser + md)