PHP User Agent Parser Benchmarks
Results
| parser | time | peak memory |
|---|---|---|
| get_browser() | 59.665177 | 524288 |
| browscap-php | 4.9851598 | 50069504 |
| crossjoin\Browscap | 4.6786639 | 1310720 |
| ua-parser | 0.6419560 | 2097152 |
| woothee-php | 0.0876269 | 524288 |
Note(1): These parsers have different functionality. Generally speaking, it has more functionality, it becomes slower.
Note(2): This benchmark is designed to parse only one user agent with one parser instance.
How to Benchmark
Install source code.
$ git clone https://github.com/kenjis/user-agent-parser-benchmarks.git
$ cd user-agent-parser-benchmarks
$ composer install
Edit baseUrl value in config.php if you need.
Prepare benchmarks and web server.
$ sh bin/prepare.sh
$ php -S localhost:8000
Run benchmarks.
$ php bin/run-benchmarks.php
See http://localhost:8000/benchmark.php.
Check your User Agent
You can check your user agent at http://localhost:8000/check-your-ua.php.
How to Check Differences of Detections
Prepare your user agent strings list file and set userAgentListFile value in config.php.
Run benchmarks and normalize.
$ php bin/run-benchmarks.php
$ php bin/normalize-output.php
Show differences.
$ php bin/show-diff.php