Want to participate in WP Hosting Benchmarks?

The most reliable way to be notified about signing up for the benchmarks is joining the company mailing list. I make an effort to announce in many places, but this is the only one that should deliver that news to your inbox reliably.

General Information

These benchmarks are open to almost every company participating. The primary exceptions are companies that offers services that don’t fit in an apples-to-apples comparison for some reason (eg. pricing model doesn’t translate comparably into price tiers, or technically operate differently or with significant limitation preventing apples-to-apples comparisons like static site hosting).

That said, not every company is likely a good fit for participation in the benchmarks.

If you’ve not done any performance optimization and never load tested your own servers, you probably aren’t a good fit.

The tests that are run are well documented in our Methodology section. Please understand what you’re signing up for.

I am not here to make any company look bad.

Requirements and Understanding:

• Accounts will be provided for free for the duration of testing (approximately 4 months from setup)
• It is the responsibility of the hosting company to turn off and disable accounts after testing is finished. If there is any doubt, once results are published, testing can be considered over under all circumstances.
• Company will assign representative(s) who are responsible and available to answer questions and deal with issues that arise during testing.
• Tests are run on DEFAULT configurations (except Enterprise tier which allows unlimited customization). This means changes and improvements that aren’t on by default or a simple click away in an obvious place (eg. wp-admin or customer panel homepage or welcome email) aren’t allowed. If a user needs to click ‘enable caching’ and you tell them this, this is acceptable. If they have to go download a caching plugin and install it themselves, this is not acceptable. If you have a specific question about your service please ask beforehand.
• Once tests are run, results will be published. There is no opting out because of poor or incomplete results.

Pricing / Fees

These tests are not free. They take an incredibly amount of time, effort and resources to run. There is a nominal fee to participate which is based on which price tier a plan is in. Fees will be announced with signups as they are subject to change.

For reference, here were the 2023 fees:

If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to Contact Us.