Let’s take to the air and find out which host is quickest in London this week?
Desktop Speed Test – Week 49 Method
- Compare 8 WordPress Hosts
- Use 8 Live Sites, each with a Different Host but with Identical Content (you can check them out here)
- Use GTmetrix Speed Test
- Location of Test: London, UK
- Frequency of Testing: Every Hour for 7 Days
- Number of Weekly Tests = 1 x24 x7 x8 = 1,344 (xHours xDays xSites)
- Desktop Speed Testing is checking how long it takes for a website to fully load using a desktop internet browser
Which WordPress Host will conquer the Desktop Speed Test this week?
WordPress Hosts
Identical Live Sites
Weekly Tests
WordPress Host #1: SiteGround
WordPress Host #2: Namecheap
WordPress Host #3: GoDaddy
WordPress Host #4: DreamHost
WordPress Host #5: InMotion Hosting
WordPress Host #6: HostGator
WordPress Host #7: Bluehost
WordPress Host #8: Web Hosting Hub
Desktop Speed Test – Week 49 Summary Table
The winner this week is SiteGround with a time of 1.72s. This time is a fair way behind the London record of 0.92s set by DreamHost in Week 30.
On our last visit to London with EWWW setup (in Week 46), the average page load time for our 8 hosts was 3.51s. This week with EWWW replaced with Kraken, the average load time is surprisingly exactly the same at 3.51s. Once again, DreamHost has performed extremely poorly, if we remove their results from both, the average for EWWW is 3.26s, while Kraken is 3.12s.
This is the second week of our Kraken Speed Study and it’s looking as though its going to be a close battle between EWWW and Kraken.
Next week we’re off to Sydney, as we continue this deep dive into finding the best performing Image Optimizer.
And the Week 49 Winner is…
Desktop Speed Rankings
After 9 months of testing, let’s summarize all the results to see how our 8 hosts are performing overall. It will also allow us to find out which host is currently leading our desktop speed challenge.
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