With W3 Total Cache ready to roll, lets find out which host is up and about this week in Latin America?
Uptime Test – Week 136 Method
- Compare 8 WordPress Hosts
- Use 8 Live Sites, each with a Different Host but with Identical Content (you can check them out here)
- Use Pingdom Uptime Test
- Location of Test: 10 Latin American Locations
- Plugins Installed: W3 Total Cache
- Frequency of Testing: Every Minute across the Last 7 Days
- Number of Weekly Tests = 1 x60 x24 x7 x8 = 80,640 (xMinutes xHours xDays xSites)
- Uptime testing is confirming that the website is actually accessible to visitors
- An example of why an outage (or downtime) can occur is scheduled maintenance of the server the website is hosted on
Which WordPress Hosts can ace the uptime test this week?
WordPress Hosts
Identical Live Sites
Weekly Tests
SiteGround Weekly Uptime Results
Namecheap Weekly Uptime Results
GoDaddy Weekly Uptime Results
Lightning Base Weekly Uptime Results
InMotion Hosting Weekly Uptime Results
HostGator Weekly Uptime Results
Bluehost Weekly Uptime Results
Web Hosting Hub Weekly Uptime Results
Uptime Test – Week 136 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded a poor uptime performance this week, with only 3 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (4 hosts achieved 100% in Week 135):
- Bluehost
- GoDaddy
- HostGator
This week’s best performer in Latin America is Bluehost, with a perfect uptime and the third fastest average response time of 690ms.
The last time we tested from Latin America (with WP Super Cache setup in Week 133), the average response time across our 8 hosts was 1,517ms, while this week with W3 Total Cache on board, it is significantly faster at 963ms.
This is the second week of our W3 Total Cache Speed Study and so far, W3 Total Cache has been far superior than WP Super Cache, when it comes to Response Times.
For the next week, I will change up our testing location to Asia Pacific. I wonder whether W3 Total Cache will continue their impressive performance?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
After 2+ years of testing, let’s summarize all the results to see how our 8 hosts are performing overall. It will also allow us to find out which host is currently leading our uptime challenge.
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