With WP Rocket combined with UK based servers, which host is flying along this week in London?
Speed Test – Week 167 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: London, UK
- Plugins Installed: WP Rocket
- 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 167 Summary Table
The fastest host this week in London is Flywheel with a super impressive time of 0.800s.
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.
When we changed the host’s server location from USA to Canada, Flywheel & Kinsta continued to perform well. Kinsta recorded the fastest average speed across 5 weeks, while Flywheel was fastest 3 times.
This marks our 7th week where our hosts are on UK servers, and Kinsta have been most impressive, recording the fastest load time 4 out of the 7 weeks.
And its great to see our budget hosts of Lightning Base & SiteGround competing with our premiums. SiteGround in particular was able to benefit from a massive performance boost thanks to the addition of WP Rocket. The average load time for SiteGround in London without WP Rocket was 1.42s in Week 162. To see this reduce to less than 0.95s this week is a remarkable improvement!!
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from London to Mumbai. Will SiteGround continue to experience improved results thanks to WP Rocket in India?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Speed Rankings
With 20 weeks of testing on USA & Canadian servers now complete, click below to find out which host proved to be the fastest so far in 2019.
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