diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yaml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e02ade938
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+name: Benchmarking PyPDF2
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ main ]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  deployments: write
+
+jobs:
+  benchmark:
+    name: Run pytest-benchmark
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.10"]
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout Code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Setup Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - name: Install requirements (Python 3)
+      if: matrix.python-version != '2.7'
+      run: |
+        pip install -r requirements/ci.txt
+    - name: Install PyPDF2
+      run: |
+        pip install .
+    - name: Run benchmark
+      run: |
+        pytest Tests/bench.py --benchmark-json output.json
+    - name: Store benchmark result
+      uses: benchmark-action/github-action-benchmark@v1
+      with:
+        name: Python Benchmark with pytest-benchmark
+        tool: 'pytest'
+        output-file-path: output.json
+        # Use personal access token instead of GITHUB_TOKEN due to https://github.community/t/github-action-not-triggering-gh-pages-upon-push/16096
+        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        auto-push: true
+        # Show alert with commit comment on detecting possible performance regression
+        alert-threshold: '200%'
+        comment-on-alert: true
+        fail-on-alert: true
+        alert-comment-cc-users: '@MartinThoma'
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diff --git a/Tests/bench.py b/Tests/bench.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b74dc56c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/bench.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
+import os
+
+TESTS_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(TESTS_ROOT)
+RESOURCE_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "Resources")
+
+
+def page_ops(pdf_path, password):
+    pdf_path = os.path.join(RESOURCE_ROOT, pdf_path)
+
+    reader = PdfFileReader(pdf_path)
+
+    if password:
+        reader.decrypt(password)
+
+    page = reader.pages[0]
+    page.mergeRotatedScaledPage(page, 90, 1, 1)
+    page.mergeScaledTranslatedPage(page, 1, 1, 1)
+    page.mergeRotatedScaledTranslatedPage(page, 90, 1, 1, 1, 1)
+    page.addTransformation([1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0])
+    page.scale(2, 2)
+    page.scaleBy(0.5)
+    page.scaleTo(100, 100)
+    page.compressContentStreams()
+    page.extractText()
+
+
+def test_page_operations(benchmark):
+    """
+    Apply various page operations.
+
+    Rotation, scaling, translation, content stream compression, text extraction
+    """
+    benchmark(page_ops, "libreoffice-writer-password.pdf", "openpassword")
diff --git a/requirements/ci.in b/requirements/ci.in
index a7592ecf5..0a6c2f57b 100644
--- a/requirements/ci.in
+++ b/requirements/ci.in
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ flake8
 flake8_implicit_str_concat
 flake8-bugbear
 pillow
-pytest
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+pytest
+pytest-benchmark
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diff --git a/requirements/ci.txt b/requirements/ci.txt
index fcca42ffe..e7e861572 100644
--- a/requirements/ci.txt
+++ b/requirements/ci.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ pluggy==1.0.0
     # via pytest
 py==1.11.0
     # via pytest
+py-cpuinfo==8.0.0
+    # via pytest-benchmark
 pycodestyle==2.8.0
     # via flake8
 pyflakes==2.4.0
@@ -45,6 +47,10 @@ pyflakes==2.4.0
 pyparsing==3.0.7
     # via packaging
 pytest==7.0.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/ci.in
+    #   pytest-benchmark
+pytest-benchmark==3.4.1
     # via -r requirements/ci.in
 tomli==1.2.3
     # via pytest