The HostingDive Speed Index measures entry-tier WordPress hosts twice daily from a fixed US vantage and ranks them on measured speed and reliability. Over the trailing 30 days, Kinsta scores highest (9.1 out of 10); Hostinger has the single fastest median response (64.9 ms) but ranks second once reliability is weighed. This ranking covers measured speed and reliability; price and managed-support are not in it yet.
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How this is measured
We run the HostingDive Speed Index: identical bare WordPress installs on the entry plan of each host, measured twice daily from a fixed US vantage, and the median is refreshed monthly. We aggregate the trailing 30 days: the median time to first byte (TTFB) over the runs a host actually served, plus the 95th percentile, the median full-load time, and the probe success rate.
Current ranking (trailing 30 days)
| Rank | Host | Plan class | TTFB median | TTFB p95 | Full load | Probe success | Speed score | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinsta | Managed WP | 67.2 ms | 104.2 ms | 69.2 ms | 100% | 9.1 | Check price |
| 2 | Hostinger | Shared | 64.9 ms | 97.0 ms | 103.3 ms | 82%* | 8.2 | |
| 3 | WP Engine | Managed WP | 189.6 ms | 221.4 ms | 195.6 ms | 100% | 7.9 | Check price |
| 4 | Cloudways (Vultr) | VPS (1GB)+ | 134.6 ms | 179.5 ms | 194.6 ms | 91% | 7.8 | Check price |
| 5 | EasyWP (Namecheap) | Managed WP | 184.6 ms | 223.9 ms | 268.1 ms | 100% | 7.6 | Check price |
| 6 | Bluehost | Shared | 303.9 ms | 356.2 ms | 337.0 ms | 100% | 6.0 | Check price |
| 7 | Scala Hosting | Shared | 339.6 ms | 368.1 ms | 369.6 ms | 100% | 5.4 | Check price |
Speed score 0 to 10, projected from the stored per-host measurements by the published formula (TTFB weighted most, then tail, full load, reliability), recalibrated to the measured 65 to 340 ms range. Aggregated over 56 twice-daily runs, 2026-06-06 to 2026-07-01. Price and managed-support are not in this score yet.
*Hostinger footnote: Hostinger blocked the probe on about 1 in 6 runs (HTTP 403); the 64.9 ms median reflects the 46 of 56 runs it served. On those runs it is the fastest host measured; the reliability weighting is why it ranks second, not first.
Plan-class caveat: these are not all the same product. Cloudways is an unmanaged 1GB VPS (Vultr), not a shared or managed-WordPress entry plan, so it is not a like-for-like comparison with the managed-WP and shared rows; it is included for reference, not ranked as an entry-tier equivalent.
Could every host be measured reliably?
SiteGround: held, not ranked this window. SiteGround answered only 36 of 56 probes (64 percent); on the other runs it returned a challenge or interstitial (HTTP 202) instead of the page. A median computed off the surviving portion is not representative, so we do not publish a rank for it this window. When it measures cleanly, it returns.
See the buyer comparison
For the plain-English pick-one guidance, see Managed WordPress Hosting, Ranked by Measured Speed and Reliability.