Why Your WordPress Website Speed Matters
You’ve invested in excellent content, professional design, SEO optimization, and marketing. But none of this matters if your website loads slowly.
Website speed and performance are the foundation of your business’s online success. A fast website means:
- Better SEO: improved search engine rankings and increased organic traffic
- Enhanced user experience: visitors view more pages and stay longer on your site
- Increased conversions: more user actions, fewer abandonments, and ultimately more sales
WordPress is the platform that powers more than 40% of all websites worldwide today. An optimized server can make even a complex WordPress site run extremely fast, while a mediocre server can degrade even the simplest site.
Simply put, WordPress speed is critical for the most crucial metrics: how many people find your website (SEO), how long they stay on it (bounce rate), and whether they convert into customers and sales (conversion rate). A fast WordPress site isn’t just a technical detail. It’s a fundamental business success factor and competitive advantage.
To document the high performance of our shared hosting, we used WPBenchmark, a free WordPress plugin that objectively evaluates WordPress hosting environment speed through measurements.
WPBenchmark: Measure Your WordPress Hosting Performance
WPBenchmark (“Hosting Benchmark tool” by Anton Aleksandrov) is a specialized, free hosting performance evaluation plugin specifically for WordPress, designed to measure in an objective and comparable way the actual capabilities of a hosting environment.
It evaluates server performance through multiple factors by measuring separately:
- CPU Performance: Available processing power
- Memory Speed: RAM access speed
- Database Performance: MySQL/MariaDB database performance
- Disk I/O: Storage read and write speed
- Network Speed: Network speed
The resulting overall score represents a comprehensive picture of the hosting environment’s capabilities, making WPBenchmark an important tool for comparing the speed of different hosting plans.
As a free and open-source plugin, you can install it on your WordPress and see how WPBenchmark evaluates your hosting environment, providing you with measurements as well as an overall score.
Score 9.6 on WPBenchmark: Fast WordPress Hosting
WPBenchmark gives our shared hosting environment a score above 9.0 and specifically 9.6!
A score we received repeatedly on our different shared hosting servers (with different CPU models) without any special configuration in the hosting account.
The WPBenchmark plugin was installed on a fresh WordPress installation, where we had first installed the WooCommerce plugin and the Storefront theme (e-shop), which were activated.
We used the latest PHP version, however we also achieved similar results, with scores above 9.0, with older PHP versions (e.g., with PHP 7.4).
The 9.6 score on WPBenchmark is exceptionally high. It places our service among the world’s top managed hosting providers for WordPress speed.
To better understand this number, let’s look at the evaluation scale:
WPBenchmark Rating Scale
- 7.0-7.9: Good performance
- 8.0-8.9: Very good performance
- 9.0-9.4: Excellent performance
- 9.5-10: Top performance
Our score of 9.6 means that even in our shared hosting environment (where multiple sites share the same server resources) we provide top-tier performance that in many cases isn’t even found in more expensive dedicated solutions from other hosting providers.
For you, this practically means a WordPress site that loads in less than 1 second instead of 3-4 seconds, for example. Without programming changes. The speed benefits for your website are immediate.
These results and speed don’t only apply to WordPress hosting but the benefit applies to every PHP web application on shared hosting.
The 9.6 score on WPBenchmark is top-tier and shows that you can have excellent WordPress speed even on our economical shared hosting plans
How We Achieve Fast Shared Hosting
The impressive WPBenchmark score isn’t accidental, but the result of years of experience and targeted speed optimizations at multiple levels of the environment. We don’t just offer a hosting panel on a good server, but we implement in-depth optimizations with high expertise and specialization. Indicatively, we mention:
- Server Optimizations: All our servers have optimal settings and detailed optimizations across the entire stack: PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Apache/Nginx, operating system, network, etc.
- High-Performance Infrastructure and Resources: We use modern fast processors, NVMe disks, and extremely fast network. At the same time, even on our economical shared hosting plans we provide abundant resources in each account (e.g., technically we don’t impose disk I/O speed limits) with proper sizing on each of our servers.
- Database Optimizations: The database is often a slowdown point for WordPress sites. We apply specialized optimizations targeted specifically at each workload that substantially contribute to speed improvement.
- Proactive Monitoring: We continuously monitor our servers’ performance and intervene timely where needed, caring with expertise for every issue that might affect the hosting environment.
Performance That Matters: Improve Your Website Speed
In the web hosting world, promises are easy – but results matter. The 9.6 score on the WPBenchmark plugin is objective proof that even our shared hosting offers top-tier performance.
It’s no coincidence that we have customers who moved their website from more expensive dedicated hosting from other providers to our economical shared hosting and saw better website performance.
For your WordPress site, this means excellent speeds even with our most affordable hosting plans. Always with premium services, immediate support, 24/7 monitoring, particularly high uptime, user isolation for security even on shared hosting, and many more measures that ensure strong security.
If you’re looking for hosting that combines premium services and high performance, the benchmarks speak for themselves. The technology and optimization that support the 9.5+ score are available in all our packages because speed is our primary goal in the hosting environment we provide.
See the difference for yourself! Our customers run WPBenchmark (as well as other similar benchmark plugins) and see the superiority. You can also run the WPBenchmark plugin on your WordPress, wherever it’s hosted today, as well as on our infrastructure.
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