diff --git a/celements-performance/pom.xml b/celements-performance/pom.xml
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+++ b/celements-performance/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  *
+  * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional
+  * information regarding copyright ownership.
+  *
+  * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+  * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
+  * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
+  * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+  *
+  * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+  * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+  *
+  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+  * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free
+  * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+  * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org.
+  *
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>com.celements</groupId>
+    <artifactId>celements</artifactId>
+    <version>5.5</version>
+  </parent>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <artifactId>celements-performance</artifactId>
+  <version>5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <description>Celements Performance metrics</description>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.celements</groupId>
+      <artifactId>celements-model</artifactId>
+      <version>5.4</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <scm>
+    <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:celements/celements-xwiki.git</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:celements/celements-xwiki.git</developerConnection>
+    <url>https://github.com/celements/celements-xwiki</url>
+    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+  </scm>
+</project>
diff --git a/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkRole.java b/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkRole.java
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index 000000000..9b55bb9f5
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+++ b/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkRole.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package com.celements.performance;
+
+import javax.validation.constraints.NotEmpty;
+import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
+
+import org.xwiki.component.annotation.ComponentRole;
+
+@ComponentRole
+public interface BenchmarkRole {
+
+  void bench(@NotEmpty String label);
+
+  void startBench();
+
+  @NotNull
+  String println(boolean visible);
+
+}
diff --git a/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkScriptService.java b/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkScriptService.java
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index 000000000..02ae83724
--- /dev/null
+++ b/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkScriptService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package com.celements.performance;
+
+import org.xwiki.component.annotation.Component;
+import org.xwiki.component.annotation.Requirement;
+import org.xwiki.script.service.ScriptService;
+
+import com.celements.model.context.ModelContext;
+
+@Component("bench")
+public class BenchmarkScriptService implements ScriptService {
+
+  @Requirement
+  private ModelContext context;
+
+  @Requirement
+  private BenchmarkRole benchSrv;
+
+  public String benchAndPrint(String label) {
+    return benchAndPrint(label, false);
+  }
+
+  public void bench(String label) {
+    benchSrv.bench(label);
+  }
+
+  public String benchAndPrint(String label, boolean visible) {
+    benchSrv.bench(label);
+    boolean requestVisible = context.getRequest().toJavaUtil()
+        .map(request -> "true".equals(request.getParameter("showBenchmark")))
+        .orElse(false);
+    return benchSrv.println(visible || requestVisible);
+  }
+
+  public void startBench() {
+    benchSrv.startBench();
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkService.java b/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkService.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..49905ae80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/celements-performance/src/main/java/com/celements/performance/BenchmarkService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+package com.celements.performance;
+
+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.*;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.xwiki.component.annotation.Component;
+import org.xwiki.component.annotation.Requirement;
+import org.xwiki.context.Execution;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Strings;
+
+@Component
+public class BenchmarkService implements BenchmarkRole {
+
+  private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(BenchmarkService.class);
+
+  private static final String BENCH_LAST_TIME = "bench_lastTime";
+
+  private static final String BENCH_START_TIME = "bench_startTime";
+
+  private static final String CEL_BENCHMARK_VAL_PREFIX = "CEL_BENCHMARK_";
+
+  private static final String CEL_BENCHMARK_OUT_STRINGS = CEL_BENCHMARK_VAL_PREFIX
+      + "benchOutStrings";
+
+  @Requirement
+  Execution execution;
+
+  private boolean isBenchStarted() {
+    return getContextLongValue(BENCH_START_TIME) != null;
+  }
+
+  private Long getContextLongValue(String name) {
+    return (Long) execution.getContext().getProperty(CEL_BENCHMARK_VAL_PREFIX + name);
+  }
+
+  private void setContextLongValue(String name, long value) {
+    execution.getContext().setProperty(CEL_BENCHMARK_VAL_PREFIX + name, value);
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  private ArrayList<String> getBenchOutStringArray() {
+    ArrayList<String> benchOutStringArray;
+    if (execution.getContext().getProperty(CEL_BENCHMARK_OUT_STRINGS) == null) {
+      benchOutStringArray = new ArrayList<>();
+      execution.getContext().setProperty(CEL_BENCHMARK_OUT_STRINGS, benchOutStringArray);
+    } else {
+      benchOutStringArray = (ArrayList<String>) execution.getContext()
+          .getProperty(CEL_BENCHMARK_OUT_STRINGS);
+    }
+    return benchOutStringArray;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void bench(String label) {
+    checkArgument(!Strings.isNullOrEmpty(label));
+    if (isBenchStarted()) {
+      long currTime = new Date().getTime();
+      double totalTime = (currTime - getContextLongValue(BENCH_START_TIME)) / 1000.0;
+      double time = (currTime - getContextLongValue(BENCH_LAST_TIME)) / 1000.0;
+      setContextLongValue(BENCH_LAST_TIME, currTime);
+      getBenchOutStringArray()
+          .add("bench '" + label + "' &mdash; in " + time + "s &mdash; total " + totalTime
+              + "s");
+    } else {
+      LOGGER.info("bench called without startBench. Skipping.");
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void startBench() {
+    long benchStartTime = new Date().getTime();
+    setContextLongValue(BENCH_START_TIME, benchStartTime);
+    setContextLongValue(BENCH_LAST_TIME, benchStartTime);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String println(boolean visible) {
+    String outStr = getBenchOutStringArray().stream()
+        .collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));
+    getBenchOutStringArray().clear();
+    if (!visible) {
+      outStr = "<!-- " + outStr + " -->\n";
+    }
+    return outStr;
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/celements-performance/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/celements-performance/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
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index 000000000..5e9495128
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+++ b/celements-performance/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Manifest-Version: 1.0
+Class-Path: 
+
diff --git a/celements-performance/src/main/resources/META-INF/components.txt b/celements-performance/src/main/resources/META-INF/components.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1a12d83ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/celements-performance/src/main/resources/META-INF/components.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+com.celements.performance.BenchmarkService
+com.celements.performance.BenchmarkScriptService