We’ve run our own independent benchmarks on our own hosting accounts using Pingdom and Google Pagespeed for measurements to keep everything consistent. We also account for geographical distance differences by running all tests from the location nearest the data center where the hosting account is located.
We’ve been running persistent tests for over a year on many WordPress hosts and for at least 30 days on every host that you’ll find in this article. We want to see how these web hosts perform over time because that paints the most accurate picture.
All of the hosting accounts and services used for testing were purchased by us and, in most cases, without the hosts knowing that we were conducting tests (the exceptions were because we encountered some setup issue and had to contact their support team for guidance).