The purpose of this page is to show you the live charts displaying performance of all the hosts I monitor in one place. Also on this page I put together historical data on the hosting performance.
These hosts participate in Monthly Hosting Performance Contests. Each month I put together performance rating of the hosts according to the performance monitoring methodology.
Continuous monitoring like that is very important because otherwise it’s hard to find out how your hosting really performs. While you may notice some issues when visiting your website, you can’t do it every minute all days and night long. And this is what can be done by the automatic performance monitoring that I run using a professional web application monitoring service monitis.com (until January 2021) and pingdom.com (since January 2021).
By the way, the best hosting I’ve ever met during my researches and managing websites (I’ve been using more than one hundred hosts) are on my recommended hosting list.
I determine the best hosts by a number of factors among them performance (reliability, uptime, speed) is just a part of it. Very important factors are also customer support, ethics of hosting companies, their reputation among their current and former clients and professional hosting community.
Hosting speed history tables (monthly average)
Hosting speed is measured as full page load time of my test websites hosted with these hosts. The speed tests are performed every 20 minutes from two US locations (from one US location every 30 minutes since January 2021). For more on the methodology of the testing see this page.
(The less value, the better. Very fast host is below 2.5 seconds)
(The greener, the better. Yellow is below the highest standards. Orange is worse. Red is the worst.)
Hosting speed history (monthly average), Year 2016:
Hosting speed history (monthly average), Year 2017:
Hosting speed history (monthly average), Year 2018:
Hosting speed history (monthly average), Year 2019:
Hosting speed history (monthly average), Year 2020:
See hosting plans and prices: StableHost, HawkHost, SiteGround, GeekStorage, VeeroTech, MDDHosting, InMotionHosting, A2Hosting, LunarPages, Squidix, HostWinds, MochaHost, Eleven2, GlowHost.
Read my recommended hosting reviews: A2Hosting, HawkHost, GeekStorage, VeeroTech.
Note: StableHost belongs to MissHosting; LunarPages has been acquired by HostPapa.
Hosting speed history (monthly average), Year 2021:
Lite installations:
Heavy installations:
See hosting plans and prices: A2 Hosting, GeekStorage, HawkHost, GlowHost.
Read my recommended hosting reviews: A2 Hosting, GeekStorage, HawkHost.
Uptime history tables (monthly average)
The uptime tests are performed every minute from two US locations. For more on the methodology of the testing see this page.
(The more value, the better. Max 100%. Very good host benchmark – 99.9%)
(The greener, the better. Yellow is below the highest standards. Orange is worse. Red is the worst.)
Uptime history (monthly average), Year 2016:
Uptime history (monthly average), Year 2017:
Uptime history (monthly average), Year 2018:
Uptime history (monthly average), Year 2019:
Uptime history (monthly average), Year 2020:
See hosting plans and prices: StableHost, HawkHost, SiteGround, GeekStorage, VeeroTech, MDDHosting, InMotionHosting, A2Hosting, LunarPages, Squidix, HostWinds, MochaHost, Eleven2, GlowHost.
Read my recommended hosting reviews: A2Hosting, HawkHost, GeekStorage, VeeroTech.
Note: StableHost belongs to MissHosting; LunarPages has been acquired by HostPapa.
Uptime history (monthly average), Year 2021:
See hosting plans and prices: A2 Hosting, GeekStorage, HawkHost, GlowHost.
Read my recommended hosting reviews: A2 Hosting, GeekStorage, HawkHost.
Satisfactory Apdex history tables (monthly average)
The Speed Satisfactory tests are performed every 20 minutes from two US locations (I stopped monitoriong this metrics since January 2021 due to moving to another monitoring platform). For more on the methodology of the testing see this page.
(The value means how much time speed was faster than 2.5 seconds. The more Apdex value, the better. Max 100%. Very good host benchmark – 99%)
(The greener, the better. Yellow is below the highest standards. Orange is worse. Red is the worst.)
Satisfactory Apdex history (monthly average), Year 2016:
Satisfactory Apdex history (monthly average), Year 2017:
Satisfactory Apdex history (monthly average), Year 2018:
Satisfactory Apdex history (monthly average), Year 2019:
Satisfactory Apdex history (monthly average), Year 2020:
See hosting plans and prices: StableHost, HawkHost, SiteGround, GeekStorage, VeeroTech, MDDHosting, InMotionHosting, A2Hosting, LunarPages, Squidix, HostWinds, MochaHost, Eleven2, GlowHost.
Read my recommended hosting reviews: A2Hosting, HawkHost, GeekStorage, VeeroTech.
Note: StableHost belongs to MissHosting; LunarPages has been acquired by HostPapa.
By the way, here’s a disclosure: There are some affiliate links on this page. In other words, I get paid if you click on the links and make a purchase. All such links open in new window/tab; no software/program will be installed to your computer. (This is a standard notice required by hosting companies.)
Please note that although all hosts mentioned in this article are well-established and considered to be very good, I highly recommend not all of them. My recommended hosts are here.
What you can do next?
- See my recommended hosts and read my reviews on them.
- Read my posts for each of the Monthly Hosting Performance Contest.
- Read the methodology of the Hosting Performance Contest.
- See the list of hosts to avoid (EIG Brand).
BTW, I respect your privacy, and of course I don't send spam, affiliate offers or trade your emails. What I send is information that I consider useful.