In addition to serving web sites, it is also running a MySQL, FTP, DNS, and E-mail server. Benchmarking of the competitor's software was completed on the above mentioned server by a licensed owner who wanted to know how well the software he was using performed. None of these benchmarks have been altered in any way. The results were taken straight from the output of ApacheBench. What this means is the number of hits that the software can process every second.
Larger numbers are always better.
If there is any confusion, ARP 3.0.0 stands for AutoRank Professional version 3.0.0. Unfortunately, the competitor only offers a Perl CGI solution for their top list software. No high performance options were available for benchmarking. We'll start off with the incoming hit tracking programs. All of these keep track of IP addresses, which is the the cause for decreased performance as the number of IPs increase.