Odoo Ecommerce vs WooCommerce: A Performance Benchmark Showdown

Can Odoo 16 Ecommerce, 2.7 faster to load controllers than Odoo 15, beat the most popular Ecommerce platforrm in the world in performance?

At Cloudpepper we wanted to find out. We put Odoo 16 Ecommerce and WooCommerce to the test using loader.io to simulate visitor traffic and measure the average response time, successful response counts, and errors.

We used the budget server that came out best from our previous benchmark test, the Vultr High Performance AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM server for both e-commerce platforms and optimized both platforms for fair comparison: Odoo used Cloudpepper‘s stack, while WooCommerce ran on a stack featuring Nginx, Percona 8, PHP 8.1 (with 3 static PHP workers) with Gzip, Redis Page Cache and Redis Object Cache enabled.

Choosing Themes and Simulating Visitor Actions

We selected the default theme for Odoo Ecommerce and the default Storefront theme for WooCommerce and used the same default picture.

Loader.io’s simulated up to 150 visitors performing the following actions:

1. Opening the shop page
   Odoo Shop page
   
   WooCommerce Shop page
   
2. Opening a product page
   Odoo Product page
   
   WooCommerce Product Page
   
3. Adding the product to the cart
   Add Product to cart on Odoo Ecommerce
   
   Add Product to cart on WooCommerce
   
4. Opening the shopping cart
   Odoo Ecommerce Cart
   
   WooCommerce Cart
   

The visitors would gradually increase from 0 to 150 and maintain a constant load until the test finishes (set to 1 minute).

Loader.io Results

Odoo Ecommerce

Test #	Min Response Time	Avg Response Time	Max Response Time	Successful Response Counts	Errors (400/500)
Test 1	511	3,483	7,741	4,778	0
Test 2	509	3,521	6,649	4,773	0
Avg.	510	3,502	7,195	4,776	0

WooCommerce

Test #	Min Response Time	Avg Response Time	Max Response Time	Successful Response Counts	Errors (400/500)
Test 1	757	10,848	23,096	1,384	0
Test 2	859	10,540	23,026	1,385	0
Avg.	808	10,694	23,061	1,385	0

Conclusion

The benchmark test results show an incredible difference in performance. Using the same server specifications and provider, both with an optimized stack, Odoo Ecommerce outperformed WooCommerce with 67% with an average response time of 3,502ms, while WooCommerce recorded 10,694ms.

Odoo Ecommerce maintained by Cloudpepper was also able to get 4,776 successful responses within 1 minute, while WooCommerce only got 1,385 successful responses.

If you are interested in using Odoo for your Ecommerce, you can install it for free with any cloud provider in the world using Cloudpepper.