With WP Rocket now setup, which host is bringing the best uptime this week in North America?
Uptime Test – Week 99 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 North American Locations
- 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 99 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded a solid uptime performance this week, with 4 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (5 hosts achieved 100% in Week 98):
- Lightning Base
- Bluehost
- GoDaddy
- HostGator
This week’s best performer in North America is Lightning Base, with a perfect uptime and the fastest average response time of 149ms.
The last time we tested from North America with W3 Total Cache setup (in Week 96), the average response time across our 8 hosts was 214ms, while this week with WP Rocket on board, it is slightly slower at 219ms.
This is the first week of our WP Rocket Speed Study and the early signs are this contest is going to be really close when it comes to Response Times.
Next week we change up the test location to Europe, I wonder which caching plugin will perform best?
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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