About:

The Web application can measure the performance of three popular libraries for API. For API, I used https://www.freeforexapi.com/. I implemented three HTTP clients: HttpClient, Refit, and RestSharp. All clients send identical data and receive the same response. For measuring, I used the BenchmarkDotNet library. This application's main idea is to launch tests without the console and get reports.

I implemented launching tests from Web UI. First, you can request forex API with different clients, catch sight of results and execute timing. The following functionality, You can choose the host, the runtimes, and the client and run a test. The Web UI launches the bash script under .NET, and further, it launches tests. The main peculiarity of this test is that it has optionality. You can choose different frameworks. Unfortunately, I couldn't make the tests for the NET8. There are some issues with packages and Docker. Next feature, You can see test reports, choosing client or all clients. And finally, I packed it to Docker.

You can see it by link here.

Usings:

First of all, You should clone the project. Then, if you want to use VS or Rider, you can run MVC and tests. Finally, if you don't want to use IDE, you can compose Docker and open it through your web browser.

Measures:

Legends:

Mean: Arithmetic mean of all measurements

Error: Half of 99.9% confidence interval

StdDev: Standard deviation of all measurements

Gen 0: GC Generation 0 collects per 1000 operations

Allocated: Allocated memory per single operation (managed only, inclusive, 1KB = 1024B)

1 Us: 1 Microsecond (0.000001 sec)

HttpClient

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.5, OS=macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a) [Darwin 22.4.0]
Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=8.0.100-preview.3.23178.7
  [Host]   : .NET 6.0.16 (6.0.1623.17311), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
  ShortRun : .NET 6.0.16 (6.0.1623.17311), X64 RyuJIT AVX2

Job=ShortRun  IterationCount=3  LaunchCount=1  
WarmupCount=3  

Refit

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.5, OS=macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a) [Darwin 22.4.0]
Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=8.0.100-preview.3.23178.7
  [Host]   : .NET 6.0.16 (6.0.1623.17311), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
  ShortRun : .NET 6.0.16 (6.0.1623.17311), X64 RyuJIT AVX2

Job=ShortRun  IterationCount=3  LaunchCount=1  
WarmupCount=3  

RestSharp

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.5, OS=macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a) [Darwin 22.4.0]
Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=8.0.100-preview.3.23178.7
  [Host]   : .NET 6.0.16 (6.0.1623.17311), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
  ShortRun : .NET 6.0.16 (6.0.1623.17311), X64 RyuJIT AVX2

Job=ShortRun  IterationCount=3  LaunchCount=1  
WarmupCount=3