Australian Web Hosting Performance

Performance Matters.

We take web providers for a spin and provide transparent and objective data.

Why does this data matter?

When you buy a car you look at both performance and features. However, when it comes to web host performance it is opaque.

We anonymously monitor the three most impactful metrics on web hosts so you can make better informed decisions for your hosting.

Load Time

Most studies suggest that for every 0.1 seconds longer your website takes to load your conversion rate drops by 1-2%.

I.E. If your website generates $3000/month then moving to a 0.2 second faster web host will typically increase sales $60-120/month.

A lower score is better.

Uptime

The more time your website is available the higher chance someone browsing to your URL will actually see your content.

A 99.9% uptime means around 8.75 hours unavailability in a year. This is usually a lower-end score.

A higher score is better.

Page Speed

Google builds a performance metric for your website which affects your Google rank. Switching hosting will only affect performance metrics (not content).

Each performance metric captures some aspect of page load speed. The breakdown and weighting can be found here.

A higher score is better.

Web Provider Comparison

Cost (Plan)	Specs.	Uptime	Load Time	Pagespeed
$9.95/month $119.40/year Starter+	Storage: 5 GB SSD CPU: 2 Memory: 2 GB Bandwidth: Unlimited	99.970%	1.838 s	81.12%	Sign Up
$12.00/month $120.00/year Wordpress Economy	Storage: 10 GB SSD CPU: shared Memory: shared Bandwidth: Unlimited	99.940%	1.508 s	80.08%	Our Review Sign Up
$9.90/month $99.00/year Personal Basic	Storage: 1 GB CPU: shared Memory: shared Bandwidth: 10 GB	99.970%	1.262 s	86.48%	Sign Up
$11.00 USD/month $132.00 USD/year Standard 1 GB - Vultr (Sydney)	Storage: 25 GB SSD CPU: 1 Memory: 1 GB Bandwidth: 1000 GB	99.970%	1.319 s	83.15%	Sign Up
$12.90/month $154.80/year Shared Basic	Storage: 5 GB SSD CPU: 2 Memory: 2 GB Bandwidth: Unlimited	99.870%	2.598 s	79.47%	Sign Up

Hourly Load Time Performance

Note: Crazydomains does not provide a free SSL certificate. This likely leads to a slightly faster response time (~0.1s).

Our Methodology

We use Binary Canary for uptime monitoring (every minute), GTMetrix for hourly load times (from Sydney) and Google's Pagespeed Insights API for hourly Page Speed reports.

We use a restaurant landing page for testing provided by the Divi Wordpress theme. We test using HTTPS connections if SSL certificates are provided.

All plans are...

Equally priced: Our plans are $10-12/month. We use post-promotion pricing.
Hosted in Australia: Users like fast websites. The same server in Australia will serve content faster than in the US.
Entirely served by the Provider: We use the default DNS provided by the provider for a more holistic view.
Identically Configured: Same database; same PHP version; same Wordpress content.
Periodically Renewed: We sign up with new accounts every few months to change hosting server; it provides a better representative picture.

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