WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks

INTRODUCTION

Hosting in general, or more specifically, WordPress hosting, is something every single person who uses the WordPress.org platform has to take into consideration. Depending on your site and what you use it for, your needs, when it comes to hosting, may be few or complex.

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If they are few, simply choosing whoever is the cheapest host may be enough for you. If you are at the other end of the spectrum, you should probably be looking into WordPress hosting.

WORDPRESS HOSTING PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

REGULAR WEB HOSTING VS WORDPRESS HOSTING

The major difference between web and managed WordPress hosting is server configuration. WordPress has some specific demands, demands that cheap shared hosting may not be able to fulfill. But a server that offers managed WordPress hosting has been built and fine-tuned with WordPress in mind.

THE PROCEDURE BEHIND WORDPRESS HOSTING PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

First of all, the results of these tests are based solely on performance, so it’s not your typical review where you’ll learn about the price and support options. It’s all about server configurations and how well they run.

THEPUBLISHER

This performance benchmark report has been published for the last eight years by Kevin

of Review Signal. As of this year, the report appears on webhostingbenchmarks.com, which is a WordPress-powered site.

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THE METHODOLOGY

Two things are measured peak performance and consistency. Load

testing

services

quantify peak performance

while

uptime

monitoring measures consistency. And that monitoring lasted for a minimum of three months for the 2021 report period.

GODADDY

GoDaddy was tested in the lowest tier package category and the WooCommerce category. I’ll deal with WooCommerce below. As the screenshot above shows, they didn’t make the Top Tier rating nor Honorable Mention. But before I bash them, let me point out that they do have a consistent 99.99% uptime.

INMOTIONHOSTING

InMotion didn’t make the Top Tier rating this year, but they did snag an Honorable Mention. First, they had a consistent uptime of over 99.9% but what’s most noteworthy is their WP Bench Score. They had the fastest score of anyone tested.

SITEGROUND

Another popular and often recommended WordPress Hosting company that has earned an Honorable Mention. If you’re interested in Uptime more than anything else, maybe you should consider SiteGround as they had a perfect score of 100%. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. And the Load Storm test that has returned errors for both GoDaddy and InMotion encountered no issues with SiteGround.

WOOCOMMERCE HOSTING PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

This is a subset of the WP Hosting Benchmarks, as sites that run WooCommerce, especially big, busy stores, have specific requirements. For the setup in this scenario, identical WP sites running WooCommerce were created. And unless a host had extra plugins or code that they added, all sites run the same plugins and were built on the Woo Storefront theme.

GODADDY – WOOCOMMERCE HOSTING

GoDaddy didn’t rank for WP Hosting this year, and they didn’t rank for WooCommerce hosting either. While, as mentioned above, they tested excellent on uptime, and the K6 test was okay, things fell apart from there. The Load Storm test had a single consistent error for managed WordPress hosting, had multiple issues of the WooCommerce tests.

SITEGROUND – WOOCOMMERCE HOSTING

SiteGround moved up from the Honorable Mention territory they achieved in the WordPress Hosting category and landed themselves a Top Tier win in the WooCommerce category.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORDPRESS HOSTING PROVIDER

You might think all you need to do is check out a few review sites, but what most newbies probably don’t realize is that in many cases, the content of those sites is very close to lies. Because the site owners have an agenda—to make money. And hosting providers offer commissions to sites that send new customers their way.

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