With WP Rocket assisting our sites that are sitting on Indian servers, which hosts are flying along this week in India?
Speed Test – Week 178 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: India
- Location of Test: Mumbai, India
- 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 178 Summary Table
The fastest host this week in Mumbai is Lightning Base with a blistering time of 1.07s.
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.
With the server location set in the UK, Kinsta once again was the most impressive, recording the fastest load time 5 out of the 10 weeks.
This now marks our 8th week where our hosts are on Indian servers, and Flywheel & Pressidium have perform the best, with both being the fastest across 3 weeks each. For this week, a rare result has seen our 2 budget hosts of Lightning Base & SiteGround record the fastest 2 results. WP Rocket has massively improved SiteGround’s speed, as their load time was 1.80s in Week 173 without WP Rocket, stepping up to 1.09s this week with WP Rocket.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from Mumbai to Vancouver. Will Lightning Base & SiteGround continue this astonishing performance, or will our premiums return to the top of the charts?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Speed Rankings
With 30 weeks of testing on USA, UK & Canadian servers now complete, click below to find out which host proved to be the fastest so far in 2019.
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