Benchmark

We tested the performance of a default Next.js 16 application running with and without Nylon Mesh using oha. The test generated 120 concurrent connections from an AWS c7g.xlarge instance targeting an application hosted on an AWS c7g.2xlarge instance.

Summary

Metric	Next.js (No Cache)	With Nylon Mesh
Requests / sec	1,880.22	200,867.14
Average Latency	63.89 ms	0.59 ms
Throughput	5.44 MiB/s	584.07 MiB/s
Fastest Request	11.97 ms	0.07 ms
Slowest Request	168.75 ms	95.63 ms

100x Faster

Nylon Mesh served the Next.js pages over 106x faster with dramatically lower average latency and higher throughput by caching the SSR HTML responses directly at the edge layer.

Response Time Distribution

With Nylon Mesh

Nylon Mesh Response Time

0.070 ms

[1]

9.625 ms

[2,008,845]

19.181 ms

[0]

28.736 ms

[0]

38.292 ms

[0]

47.848 ms

[0]

57.403 ms

[0]

66.959 ms

[0]

76.514 ms

[1]

86.070 ms

[117]

95.625 ms

[2]

Next.js (No Cache)

Next.js Response Time

11.977 ms

[1]

27.654 ms

[89]

43.332 ms

[39]

59.009 ms

[5,645]

74.687 ms

[11,429]

90.365 ms

[968]

106.042 ms

[120]

121.720 ms

[243]

137.397 ms

[138]

153.075 ms

[33]

168.752 ms

[2]

Raw Output

Here's the full raw output from oha for verification:

Nylon Mesh (Port 3000)

admin@ip-10-0-9-51:~$ ./oha-linux-arm64 -c 120 -z 10s -m GET http://10.0.11.157:3000
Summary:
  Success rate:	100.00%
  Total:	10001.5760 ms
  Slowest:	95.6253 ms
  Fastest:	0.0699 ms
  Average:	0.5925 ms
  Requests/sec:	200867.1433

  Total data:	5.70 GiB
  Size/request:	2.98 KiB
  Size/sec:	584.07 MiB

Response time histogram:
   0.070 ms [1]       |
   9.625 ms [2008845] |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
  19.181 ms [0]       |
  28.736 ms [0]       |
  38.292 ms [0]       |
  47.848 ms [0]       |
  57.403 ms [0]       |
  66.959 ms [0]       |
  76.514 ms [1]       |
  86.070 ms [117]     |
  95.625 ms [2]       |

Response time distribution:
  10.00% in 0.3686 ms
  25.00% in 0.4437 ms
  50.00% in 0.5365 ms
  75.00% in 0.6654 ms
  90.00% in 0.8583 ms
  95.00% in 1.0294 ms
  99.00% in 1.5710 ms
  99.90% in 2.1867 ms
  99.99% in 3.5092 ms

Next.js (Port 3001)

admin@ip-10-0-9-51:~$ ./oha-linux-arm64 -c 120 -z 10s -m GET http://10.0.11.157:3001
Summary:
  Success rate:	100.00%
  Total:	10002.0319 ms
  Slowest:	168.7521 ms
  Fastest:	11.9770 ms
  Average:	63.8852 ms
  Requests/sec:	1880.2180

  Total data:	54.40 MiB
  Size/request:	2.98 KiB
  Size/sec:	5.44 MiB

Response time histogram:
   11.977 ms [1]     |
   27.654 ms [89]    |
   43.332 ms [39]    |
   59.009 ms [5645]  |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
   74.687 ms [11429] |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
   90.365 ms [968]   |■■
  106.042 ms [120]   |
  121.720 ms [243]   |
  137.397 ms [138]   |
  153.075 ms [33]    |
  168.752 ms [2]     |

Response time distribution:
  10.00% in 57.0056 ms
  25.00% in 58.6430 ms
  50.00% in 60.6245 ms
  75.00% in 65.3658 ms
  90.00% in 72.0337 ms
  95.00% in 82.2071 ms
  99.00% in 120.8283 ms
  99.90% in 142.4703 ms
  99.99% in 168.7090 ms