minor improvements to benchmarking doc

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Benchmarking
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.. versionadded:: 0.17
Scrapy comes with a simple benchmarking suite that spawns a local HTTP server
and crawls it at the maximum possible speed. The goal of this benchmarking is
to get a measurement of how Scrapy performs in your hardware, and compare it to
other machines using a simple spider as baseline.
to get an idea of how Scrapy performs in your hardware, in order to have a
common baseline for comparisons. It uses a simple spider that does nothing and
just follows links.
To run it use::