<p>When I was building my personal page I was experimenting with nuxt3 and sveltekit as well. I have decided to go with sveltekit, but since both of them are almost the same, granted Sveltekit is finished, therefore “heavier”.</p>
<p>After getting inspired by this<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-y1YAwpWOA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow"> video </a>, i have decided to benchmark them on the cheapest VPS I can get. Since I live in EU, Hetzner it is…</p>
<p>The machine is 2(virtual)core/4gb RAM for 4€. I cloned both apps, build them and run them one at a time. I have caddy server as reverse proxy.
The results are kind of strange to the point, that I might have SKILL issues regarding deploying Nuxt apps.</p>
<h3>setup:</h3>
<ul>
<li>single VPS</li>
<li>2 vCPU</li>
<li>4GB ram</li>
<li>Caddy server as reverse proxy - gzip encode</li>
<li>Oha for load testing 10000 req’s / 350 concur.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Nuxt 3</h2>
<p><img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--aqGNv6Xy--/f_auto/v1725106315/ugc/content_6d5c8c78-4a40-4971-a6b4-81907d20f552" alt="nuxt-test-alter"></p>
<h2>Sveltekit - more images on the page</h2>
<p><img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--IhZqkkix--/f_auto/v1725106314/ugc/content_7ef36a63-16a6-4b3b-8389-4bd1acb1557b" alt="sveltekit-test-alter"></p>
<h2>results</h2>
<h3>Nuxt 3</h3>
<ul>
<li>total: 88.35 sec</li>
<li>slowest: 39.99 sec</li>
<li>fastest: 0.096 sec (1req)</li>
<li>average: <strong>3.04 sec</strong></li>
<li>Req/sec: 113</li>
</ul>
<h3>Sveltekit</h3>
<ul>
<li>total: 23.79 sec</li>
<li>slowest: 6.90 sec (nice)</li>
<li>fastest: 0.034 sec (1req)</li>
<li>average: <strong>0.75 sec</strong></li>
<li>Req/sec: 420</li>
</ul>
<p>Am I doing something wrong, or did Sveltekit just smashed Nuxt 3?</p>
<p>Resources</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hatoo/oha" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Oha</a></li>
<li><a href="https://peterk.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">personal page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sparecores.com/server/hcloud/cx22?similarCategory=bySpecs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">VPS-specs</a></li>
</ul>


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The author benchmarked Sveltekit and Nuxt 3 on a 4€ VPS with a 2 vCPU and 4GB RAM, using Caddy server as a reverse proxy. Sveltekit significantly outperformed Nuxt 3 in load testing, with an average response time of 0.75 seconds compared to Nuxt 3's 3.04 seconds.

Sveltekit vs Nuxt3 on a 4€ VPS

<p>Very interesting! It’s sometimes tough to tell performance out in the wild when the application gets more complex. I’ve used Svelte a little bit and liked it. How did you like using Nuxt 3?</p>
