{"id":2322,"date":"2019-04-02T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?page_id=2322"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:02:10","slug":"201-500-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/201-500-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"$201-500\/Month WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The full company list, product list, methodology, and notes can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This post focuses only on the results of the testing in the $201-500\/month price bracket for WordPress Hosting.<\/p>\n

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Other Price Tier Results<\/h2>\n

<$25\/Month Tier<\/a>$25-50\/Month Tier<\/a>$51-100\/Month Tier<\/a>$101-200\/Month Tier<\/a>$201-500\/Month Tier<\/a>$500+\/Month (Enterprise) Tier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hosting Plan Details<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Click table for full product information.<\/em><\/p>\n

Load Storm Testing Results<\/h2>\n

Load Storm is designed to simulate real users visiting the site, logging in and browsing. It tests uncached performance.
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Results Table<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/td>\nTotal Requests<\/td>\nTotal Errors<\/td>\nPeak RPS<\/td>\nAverage RPS<\/td>\nPeak Response Time(ms)<\/td>\nAverage Response Time (ms)<\/td>\nTotal Data Transferred (GB)<\/td>\nPeak Throughput (MB\/s)<\/td>\n\n
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Average Throughput (MB\/s)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloudways<\/a><\/td>\n878,558<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n680.58<\/td>\n488.09<\/td>\n15,093<\/td>\n418<\/td>\n52.82<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kinsta<\/a><\/td>\n892,859<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n686.63<\/td>\n496.03<\/td>\n13,320<\/td>\n448<\/td>\n54.78<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liquid Web<\/a><\/td>\n600,743<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n425.03<\/td>\n333.75<\/td>\n15,072<\/td>\n1,750<\/td>\n34.39<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pantheon<\/a><\/td>\n984,943<\/td>\n4,047<\/td>\n770.43<\/td>\n547.19<\/td>\n10,039<\/td>\n320<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable<\/a><\/td>\n1,007,886<\/td>\n92<\/td>\n774.00<\/td>\n559.94<\/td>\n5,482<\/td>\n412<\/td>\n55.52<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Servebolt.com<\/a><\/td>\n1,374,106<\/td>\n160<\/td>\n1,082.55<\/td>\n763.39<\/td>\n15,084<\/td>\n131<\/td>\n51.84<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Discussion<\/h3>\n

Cloudways<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>], Kinsta<\/a>, Pressable<\/a>, and Servebolt<\/a> all handled this test without issue.<\/p>\n

LiquidWeb<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] showed a significant increase in response time.<\/p>\n

Pantheon<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] had 0.41% error rate and showed a small increase in response time.<\/p>\n

Load Impact Testing Results<\/h2>\n

Load Impact is designed to test cached performance by repeatedly requesting the homepage.
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Results Table<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/td>\nRequests<\/td>\nErrors<\/td>\nData Transferred (GB)<\/td>\nPeak Average Load Time (ms)<\/td>\nPeak Average Bandwidth (Mbps)<\/td>\nPeak Average Requests\/Sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloudways<\/a><\/td>\n1203250<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n67.53<\/td>\n722<\/td>\n1120<\/td>\n2430<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kinsta<\/a><\/td>\n1181701<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n65.69<\/td>\n635<\/td>\n1080<\/td>\n2370<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liquid Web<\/a><\/td>\n324931<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n18.3<\/td>\n9270<\/td>\n180<\/td>\n390<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pantheon<\/a><\/td>\n1757119<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n101.65<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n1480<\/td>\n3130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable<\/a><\/td>\n1095126<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n62.3<\/td>\n961<\/td>\n978<\/td>\n2050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Servebolt.com<\/a><\/td>\n1576499<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n87.32<\/td>\n148<\/td>\n1350<\/td>\n2980<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Discussion<\/h3>\n

Cloudways, Kinsta, Pantheon, and Servebolt.com all handled the Load Impact test without issue.<\/p>\n

LiquidWeb showed significantly increased response times as the test progressed.<\/p>\n

Pressable showed a small increase response times as the test progressed.<\/p>\n

Uptime Monitoring Results<\/h2>\n

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Results Table<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/td>\nUptimeRobot<\/td>\nStatusCake<\/td>\nStatusCake Avg Response Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloudways<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.376s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kinsta<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.426s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liquid Web<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.644s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pantheon<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.078s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n99.95%<\/td>\n0.801s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Servebolt.com<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.080s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Discussion<\/h3>\n

Perfect for every company on every monitor except one showing 99.95%.<\/p>\n

WebPageTest.org Results<\/h2>\n

WebPageTest fully loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 11 different locations around the world.<\/p>\n

Results Table<\/h3>\n
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