We have been transitioning WordPress websites off of slower web hosts for a while now, and even just making that one change can make a huge difference. Our hosting platform includes faster response times, better caching and overall can increase the page loading time of your site.
Here are some stats from Pingdom tests on some recent transitions we have done.
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Site 1: Before Score: 85 Load Time: 3.12s Page Size: 5.3MB Requests: 57 Test Location: San Jose |
Site 1: After Score: 85 Load Time: 759ms (2.4s faster) Page Size: 5.3MB Requests: 57 Test Location: San Jose |
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Site 2: Before Score: 57 Load Time: 1.58s Page Size: 287kB Requests: 33 Test Location: San Jose |
Site 2: After Score: 72 Load Time: 822ms (0.75s faster) Page Size: 258kB Requests: 33 Test Location: San Jose |
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Site 3: Before Score: 58 Load Time: 2.53s Page Size: 275kB Requests: 31 Test Location: San Jose |
Site 3: After Score: 73 Load Time: 593ms (1.9s faster) Page Size: 245kB Requests: 31 Test Location: San Jose |
With all three examples, the most important metric changes: site loading time.
You can seee that all of these sites ended up loading in less than a second after moving from three different value hosting platforms to our high performance Hyperion WordPress platform. If your WordPress site is loading slowly, it might not be the theme or plugins that you need to optimize, but instead finding a better hosting platform.
No matter what you are trying to sell with your website, you should want it to load as fast as possible. For more information, check out our post entitled, 100ms of Latency Cost This Company 1% In Sales.