Top 7 Fastest Web Hosting Sites

Since Google now includes page speed as a ranking factor in search results, web hosting speed is a big deal. When we were searching for the fastest web hosting, we were surprised that the top result for that search term didn’t include some of the fastest hosts! The site we found which purports to test speed of different hosts only includes the top 6, but we found a host that appears to beat them all for the fastest overall scores in the US, so we’re listing the top 7 fastest web hosts.

Ranking Results

For this comparison we’ve taken an average of 8 different locations around the world (7 different countries with 2 in the USA). We’re ranking them based on their average response time based from from all these locations combined. Again, similar to our USA only comparison, AccelerHosting got the best score and seems to be a large margin in the lead being close to 40ms ahead of it’s closest competitor. AccelerHosting seems to be the clear winner here, unless you’re only interested in localized speed for a specific area, in which case you might look to the other contenders.

Global Averages

Here are the list of hosts ordered by their global average response times:

Host	Global Average	Rank
AccelerHosting	108 ms	1
iPage	146 ms	2
SiteGround	147 ms	3
Inmotion	149 ms	4
GreenGeeks	190 ms	5
A2 Hosting	170 ms	6
InterServer	179 ms	7

The New Top Performer

Since AccelerHosting’s scores weren’t on Bitcatcha’s main list of the fastest reviewed sites, even though they show as the fastest overall in the US, we’re posting a link to the speed checker result (though we’re not sure how long these results are kept on their server) and the screenshot of the Bitcatcha scores here:

You might think that a few milliseconds doesn’t matter so much, but this time will add up and compound when one request depends on another. First your page HTML has to be retrieved before anything else, which then references some of your other files (CSS, images, etc), but then some of those other files may then yet reference even further more files (such as a CSS file referencing other image files). Each call adds additional latency. It all adds up and can affect your site speed more than what it might seem on the surface! That’s why we’re also planning on doing Google PageSpeed test to see how they all stack up cumulatively.

The Full Data

For reference here is the full list of scores along with their global average:

	US (West)	US (East)	London	Singapore	Sao Paulo	Bangalore	Sydney	Japan	Average
AccelerHosting	3 ms	2 ms	181 ms	248 ms	108 ms	324 ms	1 ms	2 ms	109 ms
GreenGeeks	48 ms	1 ms	217 ms	436 ms	137 ms	320 ms	222 ms	146 ms	191 ms
SiteGround	53 ms	1 ms	104 ms	241 ms	142 ms	257 ms	231 ms	143 ms	147 ms
Bluehost	39 ms	26 ms	339 ms	245 ms	143 ms	375 ms	183 ms	159 ms	189 ms
InterServer	66 ms	9 ms	275 ms	256 ms	142 ms	252 ms	268 ms	165 ms	179 ms
iPage	78 ms	8 ms	93 ms	255 ms	120 ms	205 ms	235 ms	173 ms	146 ms
Inmotion	64 ms	26 ms	90 ms	250 ms	129 ms	225 ms	230 ms	180 ms	149 ms
HostGator	31 ms	74 ms	324 ms	195 ms	175 ms	286 ms	177 ms	128 ms	174 ms
A2 Hosting	86 ms	19 ms	104 ms	262 ms	152 ms	306 ms	248 ms	179 ms	170 ms

The main numbers we looked at for our graph were there worldwide average for all the locations together, though if you’re more interested in only specific areas you can see the breakdown above. For those interested primarily in the US markets, we’ve done a separate review of the US scores. If you want to check the scores of your current host, head over to Bitcatcha’s report page, which is where we got all of the data for this report.

Conclusion

We hope this comparison has been helpful in evaluating the speed of different hosts, and that it helps you in your journey to find the fastest web hosting! In the future we’ll be looking at other scores such as GTmetrix and Google’s PageSpeed Insights. Google is of course the most widely used search engine in the world, so it would make sense to trust their scores. Stay tuned for more tests and rankings coming soon!

If you find a faster host, please drop us a line in our comments and we’ll try to add it. Thank you!