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+# Benchmarking `node-http-proxy`
+
+The long-term goal of these scripts and documentation is to provide a consistent and well understood benchmarking process for `node-http-proxy` so that performance does not degrade over time. They were initially created to compare the performance of `v0.10.3` and `v1.0.0` (which was a significant rewrite).
+
+## Pre-requisites
+
+All benchmarking shall be done with [wrk](https://github.com/wg/wrk) which _is the same tool used for performance testing by the node.js core team._ **Make sure you have `wrk` installed before continuing**.
+
+```
+Usage: wrk <options> <url>
+  Options:
+    -c, --connections <N>  Connections to keep open
+    -d, --duration    <T>  Duration of test
+    -t, --threads     <N>  Number of threads to use
+
+    -s, --script      <S>  Load Lua script file
+    -H, --header      <H>  Add header to request
+        --latency          Print latency statistics
+        --timeout     <T>  Socket/request timeout
+    -v, --version          Print version details
+                                                      
+  Numeric arguments may include a SI unit (1k, 1M, 1G)
+  Time arguments may include a time unit (2s, 2m, 2h)
+```
+
+## Benchmarks
+
+1. [Simple HTTP benchmark](#simple-http)
+
+### Simple HTTP
+
+_This benchmark requires three terminals running:_
+
+1. **A proxy server:** `node benchmark/scripts/proxy.js`
+2. **A target server:** `node benchmark/scripts/hello.js`
+3. **A wrk process:** `wrk -c 20 -d 60 -t 2 http://127.0.0.1:8000`
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+require('http').createServer(function(req, res) {
+  res.end('Hello world!');
+}).listen(9000);
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+var http = require('http'),
+    httpProxy = require('../../lib/node-http-proxy');
+//
+// Create your proxy server
+//
+httpProxy.createServer(9000, 'localhost').listen(8000);
diff --git a/benchmark/websockets-throughput.js b/benchmark/scripts/websockets-throughput.js
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 var crypto = require('crypto'),
     WebSocket = require('ws'),
     async = require('async'),
-    httpProxy = require('../');
+    httpProxy = require('../../');
 
 var SERVER_PORT = 8415,
     PROXY_PORT = 8514;