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From one and a half minutes to one hour to send

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with the reported sending loop and the queueNotification() and flush() calls, reproducing the timing difference between web-push-php versions 6 and 8 with 44,000 endpoints. Compare batch behavior and request timing around each flush, then confirm that the sending duration is reduced without changing the notification payload or endpoint handling.

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Description

Setup

  • Operating System: Linux
  • PHP Version: 8.1
  • web-push-php Version: 8.0

PHP extensions :

  • curl
  • gmp
  • mbstring
  • openssl

browsers:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Firefox for Mobile
  • Opera for Android
  • Samsung Internet Browser
  • Other

I was using version 6, and 44,000 endpoints were being sent in 1m 40s. After updating to version 8, the time has increased to almost 1 hour, and I don’t know what could be the reason.

This is the portion of sending code

$defaultOptions = [
    'TTL' => 300, // defaults (300) to 4 weeks
    'urgency' => 'normal', // protocol defaults to "normal"
    'topic' => 'new_event', // not defined by default,
    'batchSize' => 1000, // defaults to 1000
    'verify' => false,
    'timeout' => 6, // defaults to 20 
    '\GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::ALLOW_REDIRECTS' => false
];

$webPush = new WebPush([], $defaultOptions);
$webPush->setAutomaticPadding(true);
$auth = array(
        'VAPID' => array(
            'subject' => 'https://www.mydomain.com',
            'publicKey' => file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../../../../keys/public_key.txt'),
            'privateKey' => file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../../../../keys/private_key.txt'),
        ),
    );
$webPush = new WebPush($auth);
$i = 0;
$notifications = [];
while ($row_subscription = $result -> fetch_assoc()){
    $i ++;
	$subscription_id = $row_subscription['subscription_id'];
        $payload = [
            "title" => $row_notificacion['title'],
            "body" => $row_notificacion['body'],
            "badge" => $row_notificacion['badge'],
            "icon" => $row_notificacion['icon'],
            "image" => $row_notificacion['image'],
            "url" => $row_notificacion['url'],
            "id" => $notification_id,
            "sid" => $subscription_id,
            "requireInteraction" => true,
            "vibrate" => "[300, 100, 400]"
        ];
    $data = json_encode($row_subscription);
    $subscription = Subscription::create(json_decode($data, true));
    $notifications[] = [
        'subscription' => $subscription,
        'payload' => json_encode($payload),
    ];
    if ($i % 1000 == 0 || $result->num_rows == $i) {
        foreach ($notifications as $notification) {
            $webPush->queueNotification($notification['subscription'], $notification['payload']);
        }

        foreach ($webPush->flush() as $report) {
            handleReport();
        }
        $notifications = [];
        
    }
}

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