diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7047da27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Run benchmarks
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  Benchmark:
+    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[skip ci]')"
+    env:
+      GKS_ENCODING: "utf8"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@latest
+        with:
+          version: 1
+
+      ## Setup
+      - name: Ubuntu TESTCMD
+        run: echo "TESTCMD=xvfb-run --auto-servernum julia" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Install Plots dependencies
+        uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@latest
+      - name: Install Benchmarking dependencies
+        run: julia -e 'using Pkg; pkg"add PkgBenchmark BenchmarkCI@0.1"'
+
+      - name: Run benchmarks
+        run: $TESTCMD -e 'using BenchmarkCI; BenchmarkCI.judge()'
+      - name: Post results
+        run: julia -e 'using BenchmarkCI; BenchmarkCI.postjudge()'
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c653453c..544fc7cb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ deps/deps.jl
 Manifest.toml
 dev/
 test/tmpplotsave.hdf5
+/.benchmarkci
+/benchmark/*.json
diff --git a/benchmark/Project.toml b/benchmark/Project.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d0c35ad5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/Project.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[deps]
+BenchmarkCI = "20533458-34a3-403d-a444-e18f38190b5b"
+BenchmarkTools = "6e4b80f9-dd63-53aa-95a3-0cdb28fa8baf"
+PkgBenchmark = "32113eaa-f34f-5b0d-bd6c-c81e245fc73d"
+Plots = "91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80"
diff --git a/benchmark/benchmarks.jl b/benchmark/benchmarks.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..398bf50e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/benchmarks.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+using BenchmarkTools
+
+const SUITE = BenchmarkGroup()
+julia_cmd = get(ENV, "TESTCMD", Base.JLOptions().julia_bin)
+
+# numbered to enforce sequence
+SUITE["1_load_plot_display"] = @benchmarkable run(`sh -c $("$julia_cmd --startup-file=no -e 'using Plots; display(plot(1:0.1:10, sin.(1:0.1:10))))'")`)
+SUITE["2_load"] = @benchmarkable run(`sh -c $("$julia_cmd --startup-file=no -e 'using Plots'")`)
+SUITE["3_plot"] = @benchmarkable p = plot(1:0.1:10, sin.(1:0.1:10)) setup(@eval(using Plots))
+SUITE["4_display"] = @benchmarkable display(p) setup=(@eval(using Plots); p = plot(1:0.1:10, sin.(1:0.1:10)))