After swinging our hosts over to Canadian server locations, I am really keen to see which one comes out on top when we test from Dallas?
Speed Test – Week 151 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
- Host Server Location: Canada
- 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 151 Summary Table
The fastest host this week in Dallas is Flyhwheel with a time of 1.21s.
With our 4 new premium hosts on board in 2019, Kinsta dominated early with fastest load time across 4 of the first 5 weeks of testing. More recently we have seen a shift with Flywheel dominating the speed rankings. They have claimed the fastest host honors in 4 of the last 5 weeks.
And this week marks the first time we have change the host server location from USA to Canada. At the same time, we have removed WP Rocket to get a clear indication of the hosts performance. Interestingly, all 3 hosts that have a Canadian specific server (Flywheel, WP Engine & Kinsta) have still performed the best from the Dallas test location.
Our budget hosts of SiteGround & Lightning Base haven’t fared so well this week, likely due to the removal of WP Rocket. They remain in their USA server location due to no Canadian server being available with their respective plans, the same applies for Pressidium.
For next week’s test, I will change up the location to London. I wonder whether our premium hosts that offer a Canadian servers will continue to perform best across the pond?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Speed Rankings
With 10 weeks of testing on USA servers now complete, click below to find out which host proved to be the fastest so far in 2019.
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