With our sites now moved over to Australian servers, which host is showing the greatest speed this week in Dallas?
Speed Test – Week 181 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: Australia
- Location of Test: Dallas, USA
- Caching 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 181 Summary Table
The fastest host this week in Dallas is Pressidium with a time of 1.58s.
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.
And the 10 weeks of testing from Indian servers resulted in Flywheel & Pressidium performing the best, with Flywheel being the fastest across 5 weeks and Pressidium 3 weeks.
This week marks the 1st that we’re testing from Australia without any caching support. The premium hosts (excluding WP Engine) were the best performers, with Pressidium coming out on top.
SiteGround was the most disappointing with a speed well off the pace, but if history is any gauge, this is due to the absence of caching support. In prior testing the addition of WP Rocket helps out SiteGround significantly more than the other hosts, so they will be looking forward to WP Rocket being added in a few weeks time.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from Dallas to London. I wonder whether Pressidium will continue to bring the most speed?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Speed Rankings
With 40 weeks of testing on USA, UK, Canadian & Indian servers now complete, click below to find out which host proved to be the fastest so far in 2019.
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