diff --git a/benchSite.sh b/benchSite.sh
index c59453336..78a01c6ab 100755
--- a/benchSite.sh
+++ b/benchSite.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Send in a regexp mathing the benchmarks you want to run, i.e. './benchSite.sh "frontmatter=YAML"'. 
+# Send in a regexp mathing the benchmarks you want to run, i.e. './benchSite.sh "YAML"'. 
 # Note the quotes, which will be needed for more complex expressions.
 # The above will run all variations, but only for front matter YAML.
 
 echo "Running with BenchmarkSiteBuilding/${1}"
 
-go test -run="NONE" -bench="BenchmarkSiteBuilding/${1}" -test.benchmem=true ./hugolib
\ No newline at end of file
+go test -run="NONE" -bench="BenchmarkSiteBuilding/${1}$" -test.benchmem=true ./hugolib
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hugolib/site_benchmark_test.go b/hugolib/site_benchmark_test.go
index 89d821880..6b41b8ba2 100644
--- a/hugolib/site_benchmark_test.go
+++ b/hugolib/site_benchmark_test.go
@@ -34,7 +34,28 @@ type siteBuildingBenchmarkConfig struct {
 
 func (s siteBuildingBenchmarkConfig) String() string {
 	// Make it comma separated with no spaces, so it is both Bash and regexp friendly.
-	return fmt.Sprintf("frontmatter=%s,num_root_sections=%d,num_pages=%d,tags_per_page=%d,shortcodes=%t,render=%t", s.Frontmatter, s.RootSections, s.NumPages, s.TagsPerPage, s.Shortcodes, s.Render)
+	// To make it a short as possible, we only shows bools when enabled and ints when >= 0 (RootSections > 1)
+	sep := ","
+	id := s.Frontmatter + sep
+	if s.RootSections > 1 {
+		id += fmt.Sprintf("num_root_sections=%d%s", s.RootSections, sep)
+	}
+	id += fmt.Sprintf("num_pages=%d%s", s.NumPages, sep)
+
+	if s.TagsPerPage > 0 {
+		id += fmt.Sprintf("tags_per_page=%d%s", s.TagsPerPage, sep)
+	}
+
+	if s.Shortcodes {
+		id += "shortcodes" + sep
+	}
+
+	if s.Render {
+		id += "render" + sep
+	}
+
+	return strings.TrimSuffix(id, sep)
+
 }
 
 func BenchmarkSiteBuilding(b *testing.B) {