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 Benchmarking
 ============
 
+.. 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::