Muhammet Şafak — Research — RecordsMeasurements, analyses, ecosystem surveys and source reviews: which question I chased, how I went at it, what I found and how far I trust the result.https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en-USThu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTinfo@muhammetsafak.com.tr (Muhammet Şafak)The fixed cost of installing a PHP framework: disk size tells you nothinghttps://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-ayak-izi/https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-ayak-izi/Disk size predicts nothing: Yii2 has the largest vendor tree at 34.1 MB and loads only 62 files per request, among the fewest in the field. Files per request predicts nothing either: CodeIgniter loads 96 files and serves 6,431 req/s, Symfony loads 224 and serves 13,067. The one number that genuinely separates them is the first request served with a cold opcache: 2.2 ms for Phalcon, 72.2 ms for Laravel — thirty-three times. That is the compile bill the first visitor pays after every deploy, and it is measured in tens of milliseconds, not kilobytes.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTarac-karsilastirmaphpframeworkopcachecomposerdependenciesSeven PHP frameworks under identical load: the gap narrows as soon as the request does real workhttps://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-yuk-testi/https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/php-framework-yuk-testi/On an empty route the fastest is 4.4× the slowest (Slim 25,975, Laravel 5,966 req/s). As soon as the request does real work the gap closes: 3.7× for a single row from the database, 3.5× for twenty rows. Phalcon is third on an empty route and fifth once a query is involved — being a C extension buys nothing while the process waits on MySQL. And the expensive decision is not the framework: Laravel's own default `web` middleware group takes the same response from 5,858 to 2,176 req/s, so one default costs more than most of the distance between the frameworks.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTservis-yukphpbenchmarkframeworkphp-fpmdockerHow you import Chart.js decides how many kilobytes the visitor downloadshttps://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/chartjs-import-stratejisi/https://www.muhammetsafak.com.tr/en/research/chartjs-import-stratejisi/Selective registration saves 9.7 kB gzip over `chart.js/auto` (67.8 → 58.1 kB, 14.3%). The larger drop is not in the library core but in leaving unused controllers out: a page that registers only the bar chart falls to 46.0 kB — two thirds of auto.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTarayuz-performansbundle-sizechart-jsastropreact