Changelog

July 1, 2025: A2 Hosting, one of the top-performing hosts in our benchmarks, is acquired by WorldHostGroup and rebranded as hosting.com. Following this acquisition, the old data centers are discontinued and new locations are added.

Our A2 Hosting test site was previously hosted on the USA Michigan datacenter, which is no longer available for new customers. This makes our benchmark data not reflect the actual hosting experience that customers would receive. So, we purchased a new hosting account with Hosting.com using their Dallas Data center location.

This ensures that our benchmark results remain accurate and relevant for users considering Hosting.com for their websites.

January 2, 2025:

• Rocket Hosting now offers WP Rocket, a premium caching plugin for free. We removed the WP Fastest Cache plugin on the Rocket test site and activated the WP Rocket plugin. Apart from enabling caching settings, we haven’t activated any other cache settings on WP Rocket.
• A2 Hosting introduced a new TurboHub feature exclusive for WordPress sites. It comes with speed-optimized LiteSpeed cache settings. Hence, we removed the Fastest Cache plugin and enabled the LiteSpeed plugin on the Turbo settings.

July 4, 2024

• Hostinger Update: On June 12, 2024, we upgraded our old “Single” plan, which we have been testing since November 30, 2020, to the new “Premium” plan, as the company now offers the “Premium” plan as the base plan for anyone to purchase. After upgrading, we reconducted the load test and included the latest data on Hostinger’s post.

April 4, 2024

• WordPress Hosting Benchmarks: We have updated the benchmark scores of all hosting companies for 2024 based on the last 365 days of data. Along with speed and uptime data from Pingdom, the load test and Core Web vitals scores are updated on the same day. While the benchmark post includes whole year data, we are planning to include the latest data (updated quarterly once) on Fastest WordPress hosting services post.

January 1, 2024

• We started using the SpeedVitals tool for TTFB measurement as it offers 40+ global test regions and also averages the score continent-wise, enabling users to make fast decisions. Earlier, we’ve used the KeyCDN TTFB checker tool.

September 30, 2022

• We stopped testing EasyWP hosting after 19 months. Their starter plans lack most of the essential features like automatic backups. I don’t understand what they’re trying to sell because NameCheap (EasyWP parent company) shared hosting offers automatic backups and comes at half the cost of EasyWP. They also skip the Let’s Encrypt lifetime free SSL and bundle their own SSL free for first year alone (payable from second year). Their CDN is also limited and can be used only if your domain is bought from NameCheap. There are many such restrictions and there is not a single reason for us to recommend EasyWP.

October 30, 2022

• We stopped monitoring Closte hosting. They have not been accepting new customers for over a year, but we kept monitoring them. Now, we feel our test data will not be helpful as they’re not in regular business. So, we are retiring our test site and as a stats, we have tracked them for over 20 months.

December 9, 2022

• Kinsta Edge Caching is launched and we’ve enabled it on our test sites. We expect a faster TTFB on Kinsta in the coming months.

January 2, 2022

• We added “ManageWP” to all our test sites for 1-click WordPress core, theme and plugin updates. This makes our test sites to be 99.999% identical, thus helps us to measure the most accurate speed data from our tools.
• WebPageTest.Org is removed and GTmetrix is included for Core Web Vitals testing. GTmetix presents the data in a visually better way and offers flexible test setup options.