<$25/Month Tier$25-50/Month Tier$51-100/Month Tier$101-200/Month Tier$201-500/Month Tier$500+/Month (Enterprise) Tier WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks is designed to create a consistent set of benchmarks showing which web hosting companies offer best in class performance. The focus of these tests is performance, not support, not features, not any other dimension. Review Signal’s web hosting reviews has insights for some of the companies with regards to these other aspects. These benchmarks should be looked at in combination with other sources of information when making any hosting decision. That said, for the performance conscious, these benchmarks should be a good guide.
Previous years testing can be found at the following links: original, 2014, 2015, and 2016. This was supposed to be 2017 but due to delays became 2018.
Companies Tested
1&1 [Reviews]
34SP.com
A2 Hosting [Reviews]
AMIMOTO
BlueHost [Reviews]
CloudWays [Reviews]
DreamHost [Reviews]
FlyWheel [Reviews]
GreenGeeks
Hosting.io
Incendia Web Works
IOZoom
Kickassd
Kinsta
LightningBase
LiquidWeb [Reviews]
Nestify
Nexcess
Pantheon [Reviews]
Pressable
Pressed.net
PressLabs
SiteGround [Reviews]
WordPress.com VIP
WPEngine
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17014/wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2018
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