GoDaddy
Company Profile & Results
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 WordPress Results
<$25/Month Summary
GoDaddy was the fastest in 4 of the 12 GTmetrix locations (California, San Antonio TX, Frankfurt, and Cape Town). The LoadStorm test was flat and quick with only 2 errors, including good login/page metrics. The Static test averaged 26ms — flat and fast with one tiny Singapore bump. Uptime was above 99.97% on all three monitors. Top Tier.
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 |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2026 25 | 5.4 |
SSL
The tool is available at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
| Company | Qualsys SSL Grade |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2026 25 | A |
2022 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 |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2022 25 | A |
2021 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 |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2021 25 | 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 |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2021 25 | F |
2021 WooCommerce Results
WooCommerce Summary
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/
| Company | Qualsys SSL Grade |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2021 WooCommerce | 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 |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2021 WooCommerce | D |
2020 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 |
|---|---|
| GoDaddy 2020 25 | B |
