We are focused on testing without reverse proxy caches such as Varnish and the caches provided by nginx and Apache HTTPD. This is because we want to measure the performance of dynamic requests—requests that for whatever reason are not cached.

That said, we have considered including a measure of, say, nginx delivering the same content statically as a high-water mark. That could be interesting to see how well a framework compares to what might be an ideal case.