With WP Rocket giving our sites a boost while they sit on Indian servers, which hosts are flying downhill this week in Vancouver?
Speed Test – Week 179 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: Vancouver, Canada
- 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 179 Summary Table
The fastest host this week in Vancouver is Flywheel with a blistering time of 1.17s.
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 9th week where our hosts are on Indian servers, and Flywheel & Pressidium have perform the best, with Flywheel being the fastest across 4 weeks and Pressidium 3 weeks. For this week, Flywheel was extremely impressive, recording an average load time that was well and truly faster than all other hosts.
In most weeks since WP Rocket has been added, the load time for SiteGround has experienced a notable improvement. This week it did get faster, but a smaller amount than usual, as their load time was 2.73s in Week 174 without WP Rocket, improving to 2.48s this week with WP Rocket.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from Vancouver to Sydney. Will Flywheel continue to blitz the field and does WP Rocket get back to really helping out the speed of SiteGround in Australia?
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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