Bluehost
Company Profile & Results
Bluehost is a leading web hosting solutions provider specializing in WordPress. Since its founding in 2003, Bluehost has been trusted by millions of people because it makes building, growing, and managing successful WordPress websites easy. Bluehost delivers a suite of WordPress solutions designed with the perfect mix of guidance, tools, and expertise to build a professional website. Bluehost is a part of the Newfold Digital family of brands.
Disclaimer: Descriptions are provided by the company.
Historical Performance Summary
| Year | <$25 | $25-50 | $51-100 | $101-200 | $201-500 | Enterprise ($500+) | Woo Commerce |
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| 2026 | |||||||
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| 2021 |
2026 WordPress Results
$51-100/Month Summary
Bluehost handled the LoadStorm test with flat response times and zero errors. The Static test averaged 8.4ms — the step pattern in the graph is a Bangalore routing change mid-test that moved the average a couple ms. Uptime was perfect on HetrixTools and effectively perfect on the other two monitors. GTmetrix had Bluehost third on average. SSL was A+ and the WP Bench was the third fastest. Top Tier.
$101-200/Month Summary
Bluehost handled the LoadStorm test perfectly. Zero errors and flat response times the entire run. The Static test was equally good with a 5.7ms average response. Bluehost had perfect uptime on HetrixTools and effectively perfect on the other two monitors. GTmetrix had Bluehost with the fastest average and 6 of the 12 location wins. SSL was A+. Top Tier performance.
<$25/Month Summary
Bluehost had the fastest WP Bench at this tier by a significant margin and the second highest WPBenchmark.io (9.5). The LoadStorm test had flat response times across the board with only 8 errors. The Static test averaged 18.4ms and was almost flat. Uptime was 99.96%+ on all three monitors. Top Tier.
$25-50/Month Summary
Bluehost handled the LoadStorm test with flat response times and only 5 errors against 537k requests. The Static test averaged 15.1ms and was flat. The WP Bench was the second fastest at this tier and the WPBenchmark.io was 9.3. The uptime numbers are the standout — StatusCake recorded 99.93% but HetrixTools came in at 94.48% and UptimeKuma at 91.98%. Two monitors registering big outages while the third had a normal year, with the LoadStorm and K6 tests both clean on the same plan. The WAF probably treated the monitor IPs differently rather than this being a real outage of that size. Honorable Mention stands but the uptime numbers as recorded are worth noting.
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.
GTmetrix
GTmetrix loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 12 different locations around the world. (We switched from WebPageTest to GTmetrix in 2026.)
Uptime
Uptime is monitored by three sources: HetrixTools and StatusCake as third-party services, plus a self-hosted UptimeKuma instance for cross-reference in case of major discrepancy between the 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.
WPBenchmark
WPBenchmark is a hosting performance benchmark that produces a single composite score per server. Higher is better.
| Company | WPBenchmark Score |
|---|---|
| Bluehost 2026 100 | 8.3 |
| Bluehost 2026 200 | 8.3 |
| Bluehost 2026 25 | 9.5 |
| Bluehost 2026 50 | 9.3 |
SSL
The tool is available at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
| Company | Qualsys SSL Grade |
|---|---|
| Bluehost 2026 100 | A+ |
| Bluehost 2026 200 | A+ |
| Bluehost 2026 25 | A |
| Bluehost 2026 50 | A |
2023 WordPress Results
<$25/Month Summary
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/
| Company | Qualsys SSL Grade |
|---|---|
| Bluehost 2023 25 | A |
2021 WordPress Results
$25-50/Month Summary
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/
| Company | Qualsys SSL Grade |
|---|---|
| Bluehost 2021 50 | A |
Internet.nl
The tool is available at https://internet.nl/test-site/.
Mozilla Observatory
The tool is available at https://observatory.mozilla.org/.
| Company | Mozilla Observatory |
|---|---|
| Bluehost 2021 50 | F |
