Benchmarks

Iris consistently ranks among the fastest Go web frameworks. Below are detailed performance metrics and comparisons.

Performance Comparison

📖 Results from firing 200,000 requests with dynamic parameters, JSON request bodies, and JSON responses:

Framework	Language	Requests/sec	Latency	Throughput	Time To Complete
Iris	Go	238,954	521.69µs	64.15MB	0.84s
Gin	Go	229,665	541.96µs	62.86MB	0.87s
Chi	Go	228,072	545.78µs	62.61MB	0.88s
Echo	Go	224,491	553.84µs	61.70MB	0.89s
Martini	Go	198,166	627.46µs	54.47MB	1.01s
Kestrel	C#	163,486	766.90µs	47.42MB	1.23s
Buffalo	Go	102,478	1.22ms	28.14MB	1.95s
Koa	Javascript	48,425	2.56ms	15.39MB	4.14s
Express	Javascript	23,622	5.25ms	9.04MB	8.41s

Performance Metrics

Router Performance

• Route matching speed
• Parameter extraction efficiency
• Memory allocation per request
• Concurrent request handling
• Response time consistency

Memory Usage

• Heap allocations
• Garbage collection impact
• Memory footprint
• Resource utilization
• Memory leak prevention

Request Processing

• Request parsing speed
• Middleware execution time
• Handler invocation efficiency
• Response generation speed
• Error handling overhead

Best Practices

1. Performance Optimization

• Enable compression
• Implement caching
• Optimize routing patterns
• Minimize allocations
• Handle timeouts effectively

2. Testing Strategy

• Regular benchmarking
• Load testing
• Performance profiling
• Metrics monitoring
• Results documentation

3. Resource Management

• Connection pooling
• Memory optimization
• Resource cleanup
• Error recovery
• Graceful shutdown

4. Monitoring

• Performance metrics
• Resource utilization
• Error rates
• Response times
• System health