diff --git a/nosetests b/nosetests
index 2f5271b..646c4db 100755
--- a/nosetests
+++ b/nosetests
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ __requires__ = ['nose>=0.10.4', 'SQLAlchemy >= 0.7', 'jinja2 >= 2.4']
 import sys
 from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
 
-sys.exit(
-   load_entry_point('nose>=0.10.4', 'console_scripts', 'nosetests')()
-)
+import nose.core
+from utils.perfplugin import PerfPlugin
+
+nose.core.main(addplugins=[PerfPlugin()])
diff --git a/runtests.sh b/runtests.sh
index 3ceec59..1a84849 100755
--- a/runtests.sh
+++ b/runtests.sh
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 PAGURE_CONFIG=`pwd`/tests/test_config \
 PYTHONPATH=pagure \
-./nosetests --with-coverage --cover-erase --cover-package=pagure $*
+./nosetests --with-coverage --cover-erase --cover-package=pagure --with-pagureperf $*
diff --git a/utils/__init__.py b/utils/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/__init__.py
diff --git a/utils/perfplugin.py b/utils/perfplugin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b270a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/perfplugin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+ (c) 2017 - Copyright Red Hat Inc
+
+ Authors:
+   Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk@redhat.com>
+
+"""
+
+import logging
+import os
+
+from nose.plugins import Plugin
+
+import pagure.perfrepo as perfrepo
+
+log = logging.getLogger('nose.plugins.perfplugin')
+
+
+class PerfPlugin(Plugin):
+    """A plugin for Nose that reports back on the test performance."""
+    name = 'pagureperf'
+
+    def options(self, parser, env=None):
+        if env is None:
+            env = os.environ
+        super(PerfPlugin, self).options(parser, env=env)
+
+    def configure(self, options, conf):
+        super(PerfPlugin, self).configure(options, conf)
+        if not self.enabled:
+            return
+
+    def report(self, stream):
+        stream.write('GIT PERFORMANCE TOTALS:\n')
+        stream.write('\tWalks: %d\n' % perfrepo.TOTALS['walks'])
+        stream.write('\tSteps: %d\n' % perfrepo.TOTALS['steps'])