Bluehost Review 2024 – Do I Recommend Them?
Bluehost Review Summary
Bluehost is not an excellent but decent choice of web hosting to get started. Based on our test, the Bluehost site showed good performance and a free domain name is an excellent cost-saver for beginners. Compared to last year’s test data, Bluehost has truly improved its TTFB and uptime. Their Global TTFB is not the best, but still, a clear improvement is seen, and it competes with many new-age hosting services now.
Bluehost Pros
Bluehost Cons
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Bluehost Performance
Server Response Time
The Bluehost TTFB server response time is 409 ms, as recorded through our Pingdom tool. This is a decent server response time and better than HostGator, which is also part of the same EIG hosting.
Last 12 months average speed of Bluehost:
- August 2024 average TTFB: 488 ms
- July 2024 average TTFB: 468 ms
- June 2024 average TTFB: 494 ms
- May 2024 average TTFB: 466 ms
- April 2024 average TTFB: 456 ms
- March 2024 average TTFB: 463 ms
- February 2024 average TTFB: 454 ms
- January 2024 average TTFB: 476 ms
- December 2023 average TTFB: 426 ms
- November 2023 average TTFB: 441 ms
Uptime
The Bluehost uptime is recorded at 99.95%, a below-average score among other hosting providers we’ve tested.
Last 12 months average uptime of Bluehost:
- August 2024 average uptime: 100%
- July 2024 average uptime: 99.92%
- June 2024 average uptime: 99.94%
- May 2024 average uptime: 100%
- April 2024 average uptime: 99.99%
- March 2024 average uptime: 100%
- February 2024 average uptime: 99.88%
- January 2024 average uptime: 99.99%
- December 2023 average uptime: 99.98%
- November 2023 average uptime: 100%
Load Testing
I performed Load Testing on my Bluehost site by sending 500 concurrent traffic, and the site recorded an average response time of 438 ms.
The test failed at midway with many time out and 500 errors. The server handled the load for first 30 seconds but later failed.
Global TTFB
Bluehost test site recorded an average TTFB of 597 ms.
Core Web Vitals
I have been consistently testing the Core Web Vitals of my Bluehost site. According to the last test results, my site recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 461 ms, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0 ms, and a ‘Cumulative Layout Shift:’ of 0.07.
Going by the results, Bluehost may not have the best Core Web Vitals, but again it’s not even that bad, and with a bit of effort, sites can deliver a brilliant user experience to their visitors.
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