Blallo

Blallo

Company Profile & Results

Established in 2021, Blallo draws on years of collective expertise in building WordPress websites, hosting them and acquiring traffic and clients. With proven results, Blallo guides companies in building robust foundations, supporting them through every stage, from hosting to development, sales and marketing. Alongside this, Blallo places significant emphasis on security and done-for-you optimization: each website is different, therefore each optimization is different and specific. This focused approach ensures the best possible results.
Disclaimer: Descriptions are provided by the company.

Historical Performance Summary

Year<$25$25-50$51-100$101-200$201-500Enterprise ($500+)Woo Commerce
2023
- Top Tier - Honorable Mention - No award

2023 WordPress Results

Enterprise ($500+/Month) Summary

Blallo is another new entrant for the benchmarks and Enterprise tier. This GridPane powered hosting company picked up the third fastest Page cumulative average in the Load Storm test. They also had an identical 22ms average in the Static test alongside other GridPane powered hosts Stoute Web Solutions and Performant Websites. Blallo had perfect uptime on both monitors. Blallo's first performance earned it Top Tier recognition, it handled all the tests with ease.

LoadStorm

Load Storm is designed to simulate real users visiting the site, logging in and browsing. It tests uncached performance.

K6

K6 is designed to test cached performance by repeatedly requesting the homepage.

WebPageTest

WebPageTest fully loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 12 different locations around the world.

Uptime

Uptime is monitored by two companies: HetrixTools and Uptime Robot. A self hosted monitor was also run in case there was a major discrepancy between the two third party monitors.

WPPerformanceTester

WPPerformanceTester performs two benchmarks. One is a WordPress (WP Bench) and the other a PHP benchmark. WP Bench measures how many WP queries per second and higher tends to be better (varies considerably by architecture). PHP Bench performs a lot of computational and some database operations which are measured in seconds to complete. Lower PHP Bench is better. WP Bench is red in the chart, PHP Bench is blue.

SSL

The tool is available at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

CompanyQualsys SSL Grade
Blallo 2023 entB

2023 WooCommerce Results

WooCommerce Summary

Blallo was a new entrant this year and had a pretty good first showing in these difficult tests. The static test was handled near perfect with an average response time of 30ms and a single error in roughly 875,000 requests. Blallo also maintained perfect uptime with both monitors showing 100%. They also had the fastest WPT response time in Dubai and Cape Town. The Load Storm test created a little too much load and the server started to slow down noticeably around 850 users. It didn't fail or error out, but response times started creeping up for the remainder of the test. Overall, Blallo definitely had some bright spots and hopefully earns itself some recognition in the coming years.

LoadStorm

Load Storm is designed to simulate real users visiting the site, logging in and browsing. It tests uncached performance.

Load Storm Average Response Time by Profile

This takes deeper look at the results and analyzes the performance of loading HTML mime types, to ignore a lot of static assets which are cached and bring down average response times. This tests how fast the initial pages are delivered, which is what a user would experience before loading all the other assets like css, javascript and images.

K6

K6 is designed to test cached performance by repeatedly requesting the homepage.

WebPageTest

WebPageTest fully loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 12 different locations around the world.

Uptime

Uptime is monitored by two companies: HetrixTools and Uptime Robot. A self hosted monitor was also run in case there was a major discrepancy between the two third party monitors.

WPPerformanceTester

WPPerformanceTester performs two benchmarks. One is a WordPress (WP Bench) and the other a PHP benchmark. WP Bench measures how many WP queries per second and higher tends to be better (varies considerably by architecture). PHP Bench performs a lot of computational and some database operations which are measured in seconds to complete. Lower PHP Bench is better. WP Bench is red in the chart, PHP Bench is blue.

SSL

The tool is available at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

CompanyQualsys SSL Grade
Blallo 2023 WooCommerceB

About the Author

Kevin Ohashi

Kevin Ohashi is the geek-in-charge at Review Signal. He is passionate about making data meaningful for consumers. Kevin is based in Washington, DC.

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