Performance

Imagine that you’re thinking of buying a new car: But you can’t decide between a Toyota Corolla, a Mazda 3, or a Honda Civic. So to help you decide, you don’t bother with the over-the-top hype on each manufacturer’s website…

See the results of independent testing 2023 Every year, data science supernerd Kevin Ohashi runs a massive batch of independent tests of WordPress hosting services across different price categories. It’s kinda like Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race, except for WordPress hosting. Companies…

Although website speed has for a long time been seen as a “nice to have” for affiliate sites, Google’s increased emphasis on the importance of user experience means that affiliate sites need to focus on improving their website’s speed more…

Video Transcript TERRY: Kevin for those who don’t know you, can you give us a brief introduction to who you are and your story? KEVIN: My name is Kevin Ohashi.  I run ReviewSignal and most recently launched wphostingbenchmarks.com  Review Signal is the largest web hosting…

Why Do Uptime Tools Matter? As we Web entrepreneurs know, getting traffic to our websites is one of our main tasks. So when visitors do arrive at our website, they should have the best possible experience in terms of page…

How Did These Independent 2021 Tests Work? Every year, Kevin Ohashi from ReviewSignal.com runs a batch of tests on different WordPress hosting companies to determine which are the best performers and which are not, regardless of the size of the company, how…

May 2021, Let The Panic Attacks Begin… Back in 2020, Google announced that something called ‘Core Web Vitals’ would be a ranking factor for Google search results from May 2021 onwards. This announcement caused quite a ruckus among some Webmasters desperate to…

In light of some recent inaccurate comparisons between WPX and Kinsta that ‘accidentally’ omitted quite a few facts, I decided to set the record a little straighter with this comparison below (especially tests that don’t show the test URLs for…

If you ever needed WordPress hosting, you probably wondered which is better: Cloudways or WPX? Both services are popular web hosting providers, they both have advantages, and they both had slip ups in the past. So how can you know…