With our hosts now setup on UK servers, who is flying along this week in Dallas?
Speed Test – Week 161 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: UK
- 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 161 Summary Table
The fastest host this week in Dallas is Kinsta with an impressive time of 1.08s.
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. Then Flywheel took over, claiming the fastest host honors in 4 of the next 5 weeks.
Since we’ve changed our host’s server location from USA to Canada, Flywheel & Kinsta have continued to perform well. It’s now been 10 weeks of testing and Kinsta has been fastest 5 times, while Flywheel has been fastest 3 times.
This is our 1st week where our hosts are on UK servers, and Kinsta have jumped out of the gates the fastest. Pressidium and Flywheel were solid performers, while our budget hosts of SiteGround & Lightning Base have both struggled mightily.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from Dallas to London. Given our hosts are now located in the UK, we should see some fast times next week!!
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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