{"id":1973,"date":"2018-01-30T00:34:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T05:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?page_id=1973"},"modified":"2018-01-31T05:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T10:52:46","slug":"201-500-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/201-500-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"$201-500\/Month WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full company list, product list, methodology, and notes can be found <a href=\"\/blog\/wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This post focuses only on the results of the testing in the $201-500 price bracket for WordPress Hosting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 20px; display: inline-block;\">\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"toc_wrap_left no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Other_Price_Tier_Results\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> Other Price Tier Results<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Hosting_Plan_Details\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> Hosting Plan Details<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Load_Storm_Testing_Results\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">3<\/span> Load Storm Testing Results<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Results_Table\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">3.1<\/span> Results Table<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Discussion\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">3.2<\/span> Discussion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Load_Impact_Testing_Results\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">4<\/span> Load Impact Testing Results<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Results_Table-2\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">4.1<\/span> Results Table<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Discussion-2\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">4.2<\/span> Discussion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Uptime_Monitoring_Results\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">5<\/span> Uptime Monitoring Results<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Results_Table-3\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">5.1<\/span> Results Table<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Discussion-3\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">5.2<\/span> Discussion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#WebPageTestorg_Results\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">6<\/span> WebPageTest.org Results<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Results_Table-4\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">6.1<\/span> Results Table<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Discussion-4\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">6.2<\/span> Discussion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#WPPerformanceTester_Results\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">7<\/span> WPPerformanceTester Results<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Results_Table-5\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">7.1<\/span> Results Table<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Discussion-5\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">7.2<\/span> Discussion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Conclusion\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">8<\/span> Conclusion<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#Top_Tier\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">8.1<\/span> Top Tier<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Honorable_Mention\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">8.2<\/span> Honorable Mention<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Individual_Host_Analysis\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">8.3<\/span> Individual Host Analysis<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"margin-left: 100px;\"><span id=\"Other_Price_Tier_Results\">Other Price Tier Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/under-25-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">&lt;$25\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/25-50-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$25-50\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/51-100-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$51-100\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/101-200-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$101-200\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/201-500-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-warning\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$201-500\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/enterprise-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$500+\/Month (Enterprise) Tier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"Hosting_Plan_Details\"><strong>Hosting Plan Details<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Click the table below to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/17OFYPusxDe1_K7F2c85fupikuFHR1BuwXUuVD8U4vJU\/edit#gid=815025948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full product specifications sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/17OFYPusxDe1_K7F2c85fupikuFHR1BuwXUuVD8U4vJU\/edit#gid=815025948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wordpress_product_table_500-625x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2089 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wordpress_product_table_500-625x226.png 625w, https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wordpress_product_table_500-624x225.png 624w, https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wordpress_product_table_500.png 673w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Load_Storm_Testing_Results\">Load Storm Testing Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This test scaled from 500 to 5000 users over 30 minutes with 10 minutes at the peak.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Results_Table\">Results Table<\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"sortable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<colgroup width=\"136\"><\/colgroup>\n<colgroup span=\"9\" width=\"107\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Total Requests<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Total Errors<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Peak RPS<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Average RPS<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Peak Response Time(ms)<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Average Response Time (ms)<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Total Data Transferred (GB)<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Peak Throughput (MB\/s)<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Average Throughput (MB\/s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.loadstorm.com\/#!test\/562269\">CloudWays AWS<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">770304<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">822<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">607.12<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">427.95<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">15083<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">324<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">52.27<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">42.27<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">29.04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.loadstorm.com\/#!test\/562219\">Kinsta<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">688856<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">543.12<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">382.7<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4407<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">358<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">50.08<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">40.47<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">27.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.loadstorm.com\/#!test\/562218\">Nestify<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">585655<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">26211<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">439.6<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">325.36<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">15841<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1966<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">33.74<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">25.44<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">18.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.loadstorm.com\/#!test\/562216\">Pantheon<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">702823<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7065<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">544.27<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">390.46<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">11462<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">455<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">52.65<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">43.64<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">29.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.loadstorm.com\/#!test\/562217\">Pressable<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">766477<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2603<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">610.07<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">425.82<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">15273<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">355<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">49.98<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">40.48<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">27.77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span id=\"Discussion\">Discussion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=166&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Kinsta<\/a> <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">handled this test without issue.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=167&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">CloudWays<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/167\/cloudways\">Reviews<\/a>] AWS had a weird issue with Frankfurt where all the errors came from. <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=157&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pressable<\/a> had the same Tokyo issue but otherwise was just fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=116&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pantheon<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/116\/pantheon\">Reviews<\/a>] started showing some signs of load with increased error rates and response times towards the end of the test.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=202&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Nestify<\/a> had increased response times then errors.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Load_Impact_Testing_Results\">Load Impact Testing Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This test scaled from 1 to 3000 users over 15 minutes. Error count capped at 5,000.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Results_Table-2\">Results Table<\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"sortable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<colgroup width=\"136\"><\/colgroup>\n<colgroup span=\"6\" width=\"107\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Requests<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Errors<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Data Transferred (GB)<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Peak Average Load Time (Seconds)<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Peak Average Bandwidth (Mbps)<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Peak Average Requests\/Sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.loadimpact.com\/load-test\/e550946e-4813-4e19-9924-526f0fd3fbca?charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_bandwidth%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_requests_per_second%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_connections_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_cpu_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_memory_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue&amp;large-charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_clients_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue&amp;navigator=\">CloudWays AWS<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1049669<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">57<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.36<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">908<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.loadimpact.com\/load-test\/cf8a84cc-29dd-49d8-9f1b-3d21f242b4a2?charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_bandwidth%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_requests_per_second%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_connections_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_cpu_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_memory_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue&amp;large-charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_clients_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue\">Kinsta<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1014718<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">54.34<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.411<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">866<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1930<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.loadimpact.com\/load-test\/ab45edb6-c1c1-4fb9-a002-9325edccdd52?charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_bandwidth%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_requests_per_second%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_connections_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_cpu_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_memory_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_failure_rate%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg&amp;large-charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_clients_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue\">Nestify<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">175257<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5000<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">8.93<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">21.02<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">96<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">235<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.loadimpact.com\/load-test\/5d85f2ba-e38e-4b18-a97e-9d7051e469cd?charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_bandwidth%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_requests_per_second%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_connections_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_cpu_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_memory_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue&amp;large-charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_clients_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue&amp;navigator=\">Pantheon<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1257940<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">69.92<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.173<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1020<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2240<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.loadimpact.com\/load-test\/96192b4e-4be5-4621-b505-1b00728e5e59?charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_bandwidth%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_requests_per_second%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_connections_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_cpu_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D8%3Bsid%3D__li_loadgen_memory_utilization%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_failure_rate%3A1%3BdataKey%3Davg&amp;large-charts=type%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_user_load_time%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue%3B%3Btype%3D1%3Bsid%3D__li_clients_active%3A1%3BdataKey%3Dvalue\">Pressable<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">977315<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">27<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">53.06<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.475<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">831<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1820<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span id=\"Discussion-2\">Discussion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=167&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">CloudWays<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/167\/cloudways\">Reviews<\/a>] AWS, <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=166&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Kinsta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=116&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pantheon<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/116\/pantheon\">Reviews<\/a>] and <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=157&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pressable<\/a> all\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">handled this test without issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=202&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Nestify<\/a> had increased response times then errors.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Uptime_Monitoring_Results\">Uptime Monitoring Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span id=\"Results_Table-3\">Results Table<\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"sortable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<colgroup span=\"3\" width=\"107\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">UptimeRobot<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">StatusCake<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">CloudWays AWS<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">100<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Kinsta<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">100<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Nestify<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">99.91<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">99.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pantheon<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">99.97<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pressable<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">99.93<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span id=\"Discussion-3\">Discussion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>All the companies maintained good uptime.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"WebPageTestorg_Results\">WebPageTest.org Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span id=\"Results_Table-4\">Results Table<\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"sortable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<colgroup span=\"7\" width=\"107\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Dulles<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Denver<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT LA<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT London<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Frankfurt<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Rose Hill, Mauritius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">CloudWays AWS<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.312<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.137<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.924<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.763<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.816<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.867<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Kinsta<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.396<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.134<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.832<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.177<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.031<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.439<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Nestify<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.357<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.574<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.206<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.79<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.908<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.858<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pantheon<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.353<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.236<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.804<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.45<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.375<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.088<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pressable<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.495<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.315<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.971<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.856<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.863<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"sortable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<colgroup span=\"6\" width=\"107\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Singapore<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Mumbai<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Japan<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Sydney<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WPT Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">CloudWays AWS<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.281<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.65<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.578<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.837<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Kinsta<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.712<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.119<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.268<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.772<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.508<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Nestify<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.417<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.541<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.871<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.216<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.327<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pantheon<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.045<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.662<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.393<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.516<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pressable<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.339<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.555<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.579<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.912<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.397<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span id=\"Discussion-4\">Discussion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There isn't a whole lot to say since this is a non-impacting metric in terms of the results. Nobody had huge issues.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the aggregate change again for the locations which were similar. There were 8 companies last year in this price bracket and only five this year. Across the nine same locations used, there was a cumulative decrease in response time of 3.70 seconds. For instance, Dulles dropped from 0.81 to 0.38 seconds on average.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"WPPerformanceTester_Results\">WPPerformanceTester Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span id=\"Results_Table-5\">Results Table<\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"sortable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<colgroup span=\"3\" width=\"107\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">PHP Bench<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">WP Bench<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">CloudWays AWS<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">8.831<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">266.5955745<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Kinsta<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">9.048<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1047.120419<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Nestify<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">12.526<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">125.7229067<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pantheon<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">8.723<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">294.55081<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"21\">Pressable<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10.797<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">540.8328826<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span id=\"Discussion-5\">Discussion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Pantheon had the fastest PHP bench and Kinsta had the fastest WP bench.<\/p>\n<p>The average PHP bench went from 11.92 to 9.99 from the 2016 benchmarks in this price tier. The average WP bench went from 385 to 455. The PHP and WP bench both improved for this price tier.<\/p>\n<p>One thing to note is that WP bench scores can vary tremendously based on the database architecture. You'll often see faster scores on architectures running the database locally compared to ones that run separately or have redundancy built in.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Conclusion\">Conclusion<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017-performance-benchmarks-toplist-201-500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2073\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Top_Tier\">Top Tier<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=167&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">CloudWays<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/167\/cloudways\">Reviews<\/a>] AWS, <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=166&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Kinsta<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=157&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pressable<\/a> all\u00a0earned Top Tier status this year for going through all the tests without any significant issues.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Honorable_Mention\">Honorable Mention<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=116&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pantheon<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/116\/pantheon\">Reviews<\/a>] earned honorable mention status.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Individual_Host_Analysis\">Individual Host Analysis<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4>CloudWays AWS<\/h4>\n<p>Nice to see <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=167&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">CloudWays<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/167\/cloudways\">Reviews<\/a>] AWS earn another Top Tier status after many years of participation. Perfect uptime and minimal issue with the load tests.<\/p>\n<h4>Kinsta<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=166&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Kinsta<\/a> managed a perfect run. Zero errors on both load tests and 100% uptime. Congrats on earning yet another Top Tier award.<\/p>\n<h4>Nestify<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=202&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Nestify<\/a>. I am so happy to see a new company competing on so many tiers. I am disappointed the bottleneck of 100 Mbps connection seems to have really hampered their results at most price tiers. Good uptime and snappy response times from WebPageTest were again marred by load test results which saturated their network.<\/p>\n<h4>Pantheon<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=116&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pantheon<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/webhosting\/company\/116\/pantheon\">Reviews<\/a>] earned an honorable mention. They continued to have great uptime. Load Impact was a breeze. But Load Storm started to show some signs of load and just kept them out of the top tier at this price tier.<\/p>\n<h4>Pressable<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.reviewsignal.com\/out.php?c=157&amp;t=wordpress-benchmarks-article-2018\">Pressable<\/a> continued to have the weird Tokyo datacenter quirk for Load Storm. But beyond that the performance was near perfect. Another Top Tier performance.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 20px; display: inline-block;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">Other Price Tier Results<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/under-25-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">&lt;$25\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/25-50-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$25-50\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/51-100-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$51-100\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/101-200-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$101-200\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/201-500-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-warning\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$201-500\/Month Tier<\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/enterprise-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018\/\" class=\"btn btn-success\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 0 0; width: 300px; text-align: center;\">$500+\/Month (Enterprise) Tier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full company list, product list, methodology, and notes can be found here. 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