Upstart Significantly Beats WordPress Hosting Heavyweights on Loading Speed: Independent Tests
CHICAGO, Nov. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Acclaimed marketing blogger, Matthew Woodward, just ran a detailed, independent speed test of seven main WordPress hosting services.
Unexpectedly, a relatively new host, WPX Hosting, performed far better than established industry heavyweights.
What surprised Woodward the most was not just the runaway victory for 5-year old WP host, WPX Hosting, but the margin of difference in raw speed and consistent high performance from seven different test locations around the world, based on GTMetrix.com scores: https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/experiments/best-wordpress-hosting/
In some cases, WPX Hosting was more than 4x faster than much more expensive WP hosts.
WPX Hosting was also the only host of the seven services to record sub-1 second page loading times in 3 of 7 test locations around the world, easily winning in 6 of 7 global locations (WPX came 2nd by 0.2 seconds in 1 location).
LoadImpact.com testing also confirmed the ability of WPX Hosting's technology stack to handle large numbers of simultaneous users on sites hosted with them.
According to WPX Hosting CEO, Terry Kyle, "this is largely down to the fact that we have our own custom-built CDN (Content Delivery Network), called the 'WPX Cloud', extensively fine-tuned for speed on our own hosting stack, regardless of where sites are accessed from around the world."
Kyle added, "other hosts tend to rely on 3rd party CDNs and probably have very little to no flexibility for fine-tuning those external services".
WPX Cloud is included free on all WPX hosting plans.
WPX Hosting also won Matthew Woodward's test categories of Support Quality (where hosts were asked to do a technical task for the customer, not just send them a link to an article) and Plugin-Heavy Site Speed (30 popular plugins running at once).
For interviews or further comment, WPX Hosting CEO, Terry Kyle, is available via: terry.kyle(at)wpxhosting.com
SOURCE WPX Hosting
