In this fast-paced world, nobody wants to be left behind. A slow website is a big No-No. According to Kissmetrics, if the page takes 4 secs to load that is tantamount to more than 40% abandonment. The website’s speed is an important metric in the Search Engine Ranking according to Google. A huge page size requires high server resources and slow to load.
You can’t Give, what you don’t Have! If the website of the web host is slow, they can’t make their customers website fast. Based from study, to Optimize the Speed of a WordPress website, it must be Optimized manually, and use the LiteSpeed server and cache. You can’t improve the Google Page Speed and GT Metrix tests by simply changing the Web Hosts. Because most web hosts, host the website “As It Is”. If no Website Optimization done by your web developer, then expect a failed Speed test.
Below is the speed tests of the website of the 40 popular Web Hosts.
| Rank | Company | Google Desktop Performance | Google Desktop LCP (sec.) | Google Mobile Performance | Google Mobile LCP (sec.) | GT Metrix Page Size (MB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creative Web | 100 | 0.3 | 98 | 1.5 | 0.17 |
| 2 | Hostwinds | 100 | 0.5 | 90 | 1.2 | 0.29 |
| 3 | FastComet | 99 | 0.7 | 78 | 3.4 | 1.67 |
| 4 | ScalaHosting | 99 | 0.9 | 89 | 2.4 | 0.46 |
| 5 | TMDHosting | 98 | 1 | 75 | 4.5 | 1.46 |
| 6 | Vultr | 98 | 1 | 68 | 3.6 | 1.12 |
| 7 | MilesWeb | 96 | 0.8 | 69 | 3.3 | 0.64 |
| 8 | LiquidWeb | 95 | 0.8 | 71 | 2.7 | 1.52 |
| 9 | JustHost | 93 | 1.2 | 58 | 3.5 | 1.37 |
| 10 | Contabo | 92 | 1.2 | 54 | 3.5 | 1.87 |
| 11 | Hetzner | 91 | 1.1 | 78 | 4.1 | 1.13 |
| 12 | SiteGround | 91 | 1.6 | 66 | 6.3 | 1.19 |
| 13 | A2 Hosting | 91 | 1.7 | 58 | 4.4 | 0.9 |
| 14 | UpCloud | 91 | 1.3 | 44 | 5.6 | 1.48 |
| 15 | GreenGeeks | 88 | 1.6 | 73 | 1.1 | 1.83 |
| 16 | Namecheap | 88 | 1.5 | 62 | 3.6 | 1 |
| 17 | DigitalOcean | 87 | 1.3 | 59 | 3.3 | 2.28 |
| 18 | OVH | 86 | 0.8 | 75 | 2.4 | 0.77 |
| 19 | AccuWeb | 85 | 2 | 51 | 6.7 | 1.36 |
| 20 | Google Cloud | 84 | 1.3 | 36 | 6.2 | 2.54 |
| 21 | HostGator | 82 | 1.5 | 38 | 5.5 | 2.77 |
| 22 | InMotion | 81 | 1 | 63 | 3.8 | 0.95 |
| 23 | TsoHost | 81 | 1.1 | 55 | 4.5 | 1.05 |
| 24 | DreamHost | 73 | 2.1 | 33 | 11 | 2.87 |
| 25 | Z.com | 72 | 2.5 | 44 | 6.4 | 1.25 |
| 26 | WP Engine | 72 | 1.4 | 48 | 3.4 | 2.33 |
| 27 | HostPapa | 71 | 1.4 | 40 | 6.2 | 1.86 |
| 28 | InterServer | 71 | 1.3 | 27 | 4.4 | 2.83 |
| 29 | GoDaddy | 71 | 1.2 | 52 | 3.5 | 4.25 |
| 30 | Hostinger | 70 | 0.7 | 38 | 9.5 | 1.98 |
| 31 | NameHero | 70 | 1.5 | 28 | 7 | 3.33 |
| 32 | CrazyDomains | 67 | 2.7 | 31 | 10.3 | 2.13 |
| 33 | iPage | 57 | 4.4 | 29 | 16 | 4.39 |
| 34 | BlueHost | 50 | 3.1 | 30 | 13.9 | 3.2 |
| 35 | Cloudways | 47 | 2.4 | 8 | 9.6 | 2.9 |
| 36 | Ionos | 45 | 4.2 | 29 | 7 | 3.18 |
| 37 | Alibaba Cloud | 36 | 3.5 | 36 | 5.2 | 15 |
| 38 | MochaHost | 35 | 4 | 31 | 15.1 | 1.62 |
| 39 | AWS | 32 | 6.3 | 17 | 26.1 | 6.63 |
| 40 | IBM Cloud | 12 | 5.8 | 2 | 22.7 | 4.13 |
Notes:
- Desktop Performance is the Primary rank, followed by the Mobile Performance, then the Largest Contentful Paint. Because the Mobile Performance has high variation especially for slow websites.
- LCP – the Largest Contentful Paint represents how quickly the main content of a web page is loaded. LCP measures the time from when the user initiates loading the page until the largest image or text block is rendered within the viewport. To provide a good user experience, sites should strive to have an LCP of 2.5 seconds or less.
- The Performance and Largest Contentful Paint are Mean of the 3 tests.
Creative Web is the Fastest website based from the Google Page Speed test. Unlike the Traditional Web Hosts which host the website “As it is”, Creative Web optimizes the WordPress website, uses the LiteSpeed server and Cloudflare CDN. This result to lower Page size and up to 100 Page Speed.
