With our new premium hosts now loaded up, which host is tearing it up this week in Dallas?
Speed Test – Week 141 Method
- Compare 6 WordPress Hosts
- Use 6 Live Sites, each with a Different Host but with Identical Content (you can check them out here)
- Use GTmetrix Speed Test
- Location of Test: Dallas, USA
- Plugins Installed: None
- Frequency of Testing: Every Hour for 7 Days
- Number of Weekly Tests = 1 x24 x7 x6 = 1,008 (xHours xDays xSites)
- 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 Speed Test this week?
WordPress Hosts
Identical Live Sites
Weekly Tests
SiteGround Weekly Speed Results
Lightning Base Weekly Speed Results
flywheel Weekly Speed Results
kinsta Weekly Speed Results
pressidium Weekly Speed Results
wp engine Weekly Speed Results
Speed Test – Week 141 Summary Table
The fastest host this week is Kinsta with a time of 1.13s.
With this being our first test with our 4 new premium hosts, it is interesting to see all of them achieved faster load times than our previous best 2 performers in Lightning Base & SiteGround.
For next week’s test, I will change up our testing location to London. I wonder whether this impressive start to our new hosts will continue?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Speed Rankings
With our new hosts yet to achieve enough results to summarise, feel free to check out how our previous hosts performed over the course of 3 years of testing.
Hi, I'm Clint!
I’ve been spending waaaaay too much time researching “Siteground vs. WpEngine” for a new web project that I’m starting… more time researching than doing, which is a problem. Most of the sites that have come up in my searches have been affiliate sites rehashing the same ol’ specs and anecdotal evidence. Found this site from a search on Twitter and once I started digging in, I was pleasantly surprised at the weekly data. Not only that, I see that you’ve recently added premium web hosts so, based on last weeks tests, WPEngine outperforms Siteground by a long shot. I also see that WPRocket is named the best caching plugin… would love to see how WPRocket + WpEngine / Kinsta / etc. perform, but I assume that’ll be coming down the road. Bookmarked your site as a great resource… Now, off to make something great! Cheers. Dale
Hi Dale, thank you so much for such an amazing comment – I really appreciate it!!
I’m so glad to hear that my research has proved usual for you. Yeah, it was fascinating to find out how much WP Engine outperformed SiteGround in the 1st week of testing premium hosts.
And your call about incorporating tests around WP Rocket is definitely planned – will kick off in about a month’s time.
I wish you all the best with your new project!! 🙂
Cheers,
Clint
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Thanks Richard for your feedback mate. It’s fantastic to hear that you were able to decide which host is best for you – I really hope it works out for you 🙂