This question was brought up at the geoserver-users list. The following description is a rough copy-paste of the e-mail exchange. It seems that GeoServer WMS GetMap response times for WMS 1.3.0 are longer than those of WMS 1.x. If the number of features to be rendered in the response is small then the difference is not that noticable. But if for example with 20K+ point features the difference becomes noticable, e.g. WMS 1.1.1 https://gsavalik.envir.ee/geoserver/eelis/ows?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=eelis%3Akr_puurkaev&STYLES=point&SRS=EPSG%3A3301&WIDTH=1432&HEIGHT=906&BBOX=372111.0,6382027.0,738667.0,6614170.0 takes around 3 seconds to return WMS 1.3.0 https://gsavalik.envir.ee/geoserver/eelis/ows?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=eelis%3Akr_puurkaev&STYLES=point&CRS=EPSG%3A3301&WIDTH=1432&HEIGHT=906&BBOX=6382027.0,372111.0,6614170.0,738667.0 gets a timeout, but I've checked it with a longer timeout setting and it returns in 30+ seconds Catching the executed SQL from geoserver.log for either request and executing it in the database yields no significant time difference (< 50 ms) switching image/png with image/jpeg makes no difference. Also requesting for FORMAT=application/json;type=geojson (using the vector tiles plugin) results in ~ 4x response time diff for WMS 1.3.0 and 1.x. I did some additional tests with a local fresh 2.11.2 stable bin installation, using shapefiles and three different native SRSs - EPSG:3035, EPSG:4326 and EPSG:3301. All the required DATA_DIR files to rerun this are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwPIVpJhp8rHbzhUWk9VSV9FSGM. Some chrome screenshots aswell at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwPIVpJhp8rHUEUyNTBvVDFya1E. But in conclusion: data native in EPSG:3301 (data/test/puurkaev_3301.shp) [1] WMS 1.1.1 takes ~ 0.2 s. see img/EPSG3301_1.1.1.png in the screenshots dir [2] WMS 1.3.0 takes ~ 4.7 s. see img/EPSG3301_1.3.0.png data native in EPSG:3035 (data/test/puurkaev_3035.shp) [3] WMS 1.1.1 takes ~ 0.2 s. see img/EPSG3035_1.1.1.png [4] WMS 1.3.0 takes ~ 3.9 s. see img/EPSG3035_1.3.0.png data native in EPSG:4326 (data/test/puurkaev_4326.shp) [5] WMS 1.1.1 takes < 0.2 s. see img/EPSG4326_1.1.1.png [6] WMS 1.3.0 takes < 0.2 s. see img/EPSG4326_1.3.0.png data native in EPSG:4326 (data/test/puurkaev_4326.shp) but requested in EPSG:3301 [7] WMS 1.1.1 takes < 0.5 s. see img/EPSG4326_to_EPSG3301_1.1.1.png [8] WMS 1.3.0 takes < 0.5 s. see img/EPSG4326_to_EPSG3301_1.3.0.png Request URLs aswell for the sake of making it easier to repeat the requests ![]() [1] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_3301&STYLES=point&SRS=EPSG%3A3301&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=486&BBOX=320676.1358612784%2C6349387.490053313%2C789779.5117497771%2C6646241.970107753 [2] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_3301&STYLES=point&CRS=EPSG%3A3301&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=486&BBOX=6349387.490053313,320676.1358612784,6646241.970107753,789779.5117497771 [3] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_3035&STYLES=point&SRS=EPSG%3A3035&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=525&BBOX=4953071.972760203%2C3888121.7958570817%2C5422175.348648702%2C4208797.93171836 [4] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_3035&STYLES=point&CRS=EPSG%3A3035&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=525&BBOX=3888121.7958570817,4953071.972760203,4208797.93171836,5422175.348648702 [5] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_4326&STYLES=point&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=330&BBOX=20.7861328125%2C56.788330078125%2C29.2236328125%2C60.413818359375 [6] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_4326&STYLES=point&CRS=EPSG%3A4326&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=330&BBOX=56.788330078125,20.7861328125,60.413818359375,29.2236328125 [7] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_4326&STYLES=point&SRS=EPSG%3A3301&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=486&BBOX=320676.1358612784%2C6349387.490053313%2C789779.5117497771%2C6646241.970107753 [8] http://localhost:8080/geoserver/test/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&TRANSPARENT=true&LAYERS=puurkaev_4326&STYLES=point&CRS=EPSG%3A3301&WIDTH=768&HEIGHT=486&BBOX=6349387.490053313,320676.1358612784,6646241.970107753,789779.5117497771 |