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ReviewSignal has provided us again with the opportunity to compete in the Enterprise class of their WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks for 2019, and for the second year in a row, we earned a Top Tier Award.
Once again the numbers confirm our commitment to keeping the bar high and delivering a high-quality service to our valued customers.
The methodology for the test has not changed much since last year; the only addition was the StatusCake Average Response Time which certified an awesome performance level for our infrastructure: a global 153 ms response time. Excellent results were visible in the WebPageTest.org analysis too, where ReviewSignal has used 10 locations, out of which we were the fastest for 2 of them and second fastest for 5 of them.
The uptime test has confirmed a flawless result in terms of availability of the service, so no need to count the nines, as there was a perfect 100%. The SSL implementation has been rated with A+ by Qualys for the second time.
Perfect uptime. Near perfect load tests. The fastest in 2/11 locales in WPT, and second fastest in 5/11. Awesome performance from Presslabs earning them Top Tier status.
Kevin Ohashi – ReviewSignal’s 2019 Enterprise WordPress Benchmarks
Besides the valuable insights it brings to potential Enterprise customers, Kevin’s performance benchmarks provide us with hints for improvement. We do think there’s a possibility to make these tests even more rigorous and detailed—we’re talking about testing using Locust.io distributed workload simulation, benchmarking the CDN implementation and displaying the results in a snackable, more visual manner. On top of all, it might be interesting to see the evolution of each provider, over the years.
With that in mind, we put ourselves to a bit of work. We’ve aggregated the data for our service to see how things have evolved for our managed WordPress platform and reflected in ReviewSignal’s detailed analysis.
#Logged-in User Testing
This test has been performed using LoadStorm, from 500 to 10,000 users over 30 minutes with 10 minutes at the peak.
| Metric | 2018 | 2019 |
| Total Requests | 2,012,822 | 2,229,984 |
|---|---|---|
| Total Errors | 56 | 47 |
| Peak requests per second | 1,576.23 | 1,773.15 |
| Average requests per second | 1,118.23 | 1,238.88 |
| Peak response time | 10,099 ms | 12,135 ms |
| Average response time | 208 ms | 208 ms |
| Total Data Transferred | 116.54 GB | 112.54 GB |
| Peak Throughput | 90.85 MB/s | 91.02 MB/s |
| Average Throughput | 64.75 MB/s | 62.52 MB/s |
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#Non-logged User Testing
Performed with LoadImpact, where the test scaled from 1 to 5000 users for 15 minutes.
| Metric | 2018 | 2019 |
| Requests | 1,991,403 | 2,006,864 |
|---|---|---|
| Errors | 0 | 0 |
| Data transferred | 104.96 GB | 112.9 GB |
| Peak average load time | 184 ms | 170 ms |
| Peak average bandwidth | 1,980 Mbps | 1,760 Mbps |
| Peak average requests per second | 4,580 | 3,830 |
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#Uptime Monitoring
It’s been evaluated using third-party services UptimeRobot and StatusCake. We are also relying internally on StatusCake for all our monitoring needs.
| Metric | 2018 | 2019 |
| UptimeRobot Uptime | 100% | 100% |
|---|---|---|
| StatusCake Uptime | 100% | 100% |
| StatusCake Average Response Time | N/A | 153 ms |
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#Page Load Testing
WebPageTest has been used to test this metric from selected locations.
| Measured with | 2018 | 2019 |
| Dulles | 378 ms | 378 ms |
|---|---|---|
| Denver | 1,352 ms | 1,216 ms |
| LA | 850 ms | 548 ms |
| London | 490 ms | 401 ms |
| Frankfurt | 381 ms | 412 ms |
| Rose Hill, Mauritius | 1,335 ms | 1,272 ms |
| Singapore | 485 ms | 477 ms |
| Mumbai | 721 ms | 642 ms |
| Japan | 660 ms | 682 ms |
| Sydney | 551 ms | 527 ms |
| Brazil | 1,336 ms | 1,484 ms |
| Average | 780 ms | 745 ms |
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#WPPerformanceTester Grades
Grading of PHP-only and WordPress operations using $wpdb, performed using Kevin’s own open-source plugin.
| Metric | 2018 | 2019 |
| PHP Bench | 7.215 | 6.704 |
|---|---|---|
| WP Bench | 823.0452675 | 706.2146893 |
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#SSL Grade
Tested using Qualys’ online tool.
| Metric | 2018 | 2019 |
| Report Grade | A+ | A+ |
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If you’re interested in reading the full report on Enterprise WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks for 2019, head here.
Thanks, Kevin! Looking forward to participating again next year!
