---
title: "PHP Benchmarks: Real-World Speed Tests for Versions 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-benchmarks-real-world-speed-tests-for-versions-8-1-8-2-and-8-3-jwezektwh
source_url: https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-01-12T21:11:02.825Z
updated: 2024-01-12T21:11:01.773Z
tags: ["wordpress", "php", "laravel", "cms"]
reading_time: 15
upvotes: 24
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# PHP Benchmarks: Real-World Speed Tests for Versions 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 15 min read · 24 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The post provides performance benchmarks for different PHP versions on popular CMSs and frameworks. WordPress performs better with newer PHP versions, and upgrading to PHP 8.3 is recommended. Laravel, Drupal, Joomla, and other platforms also show performance improvements with the latest PHP version.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@palmiak** · 3 upvotes

> I was responsible for making the tests for 8.1 and 8.2. Based on reading material I couldn't believe that 8.3 will be faster, but it seems it's true. Just did some benchmarks to check this.
>
> Really great job from the PHP team.

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