diff --git a/internal/websocket/broadcast_projection_bench_test.go b/internal/websocket/broadcast_projection_bench_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c83451d6c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/websocket/broadcast_projection_bench_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+package websocket_test
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/rcourtman/pulse-go-rewrite/internal/models"
+	"github.com/rcourtman/pulse-go-rewrite/internal/monitoring"
+	"github.com/rcourtman/pulse-go-rewrite/internal/unifiedresources"
+	"github.com/rcourtman/pulse-go-rewrite/internal/websocket"
+)
+
+// The fixture models a broadcast after completed ingest. Registry reads/clones,
+// identity, health, projection, encoding, deltas and client queues are real;
+// persistence, agent ingest, network I/O and installed CPU are not measured.
+type broadcastReadStore struct {
+	*unifiedresources.MonitorAdapter
+}
+
+func (*broadcastReadStore) TryReplaceRegistryForRead(models.StateSnapshot, time.Duration, func() map[unifiedresources.DataSource][]unifiedresources.IngestRecord) bool {
+	return false
+}
+
+func BenchmarkBroadcastProjection1000Resources(b *testing.B) {
+	now := time.Now().UTC()
+	seed := models.StateSnapshot{LastUpdate: now}
+	for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
+		seed.VMs = append(seed.VMs, models.VM{
+			ID: fmt.Sprintf("lab:pve-%d:%d", i%8, i+100), VMID: i + 100,
+			Name: fmt.Sprintf("vm-%d", i), Node: fmt.Sprintf("pve-%d", i%8),
+			Instance: "lab", Type: "qemu", Status: "running", CPU: 0.1,
+			Memory: models.Memory{Total: 4 << 30, Used: 1 << 30}, LastSeen: now,
+		})
+	}
+	registry := unifiedresources.NewRegistry(nil)
+	registry.IngestSnapshot(seed)
+	monitor := &monitoring.Monitor{}
+	monitor.SetResourceStore(&broadcastReadStore{unifiedresources.NewMonitorAdapter(registry)})
+	for _, recipients := range []int{0, 1, 4} {
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("viewers-%d", recipients), func(b *testing.B) {
+			sequence := int64(0)
+			getter := func(string) interface{} {
+				state := monitor.BuildFrontendState()
+				sequence++
+				state.LastUpdate = sequence
+				// Change telemetry on a row, not identity/static metadata.
+				state.Resources[0].CPU.Current = float64(sequence % 100)
+				state.Resources[0].LastSeen = sequence
+				return state
+			}
+			run, err := websocket.NewBroadcastProjectionProbeForTest(getter, recipients)
+			if err != nil {
+				b.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			b.ReportAllocs()
+			b.ResetTimer()
+			var bytes int
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				bytes, err = run()
+				if err != nil {
+					b.Fatal(err)
+				}
+			}
+			b.ReportMetric(float64(bytes), "wire-B/op")
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/websocket/broadcast_projection_export_test.go b/internal/websocket/broadcast_projection_export_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e10bf6c790
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/websocket/broadcast_projection_export_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package websocket
+
+import "fmt"
+
+// NewBroadcastProjectionProbeForTest exercises the production getter, snapshot,
+// per-client delta and queue path without network/compression or timer sleeps.
+// It is exported only in the test binary so the fixture can use a real Monitor
+// without introducing a monitoring -> websocket import cycle.
+func NewBroadcastProjectionProbeForTest(getState func(string) interface{}, recipients int) (func() (int, error), error) {
+	hub := NewHub(getState)
+	clients := make([]*Client, recipients)
+	for i := range clients {
+		client := &Client{hub: hub, orgID: "default", send: make(chan []byte, 1)}
+		if _, sent, err := client.queueFullState("initialState", getState("default")); err != nil || !sent {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("initial state: sent=%v error=%v", sent, err)
+		}
+		<-client.send
+		clients[i] = client
+		hub.clients[client] = true
+	}
+	return func() (int, error) {
+		hub.dispatchStateBroadcast(&Message{Type: "rawData", Data: stateBroadcastRequest{}}, "")
+		bytes := 0
+		for _, client := range clients {
+			select {
+			case data := <-client.send:
+				bytes += len(data)
+			default:
+				return 0, fmt.Errorf("broadcast did not queue fresh state")
+			}
+		}
+		return bytes, nil
+	}, nil
+}