Break your website’s speed limit with Kinsta hosting

I recently gave a talk about website speed at WordCamp KL 2017. One of my tips was to use a premium web host like Kinsta.

Inevitably I will get questions about whether it is really worth it to upgrade to a premium host. I usually just answer YES, but this time I wanted to give a more quantifiable answer.

I cloned a website to Kinsta and compared it to the original on shared web hosting. Here are the parameters of my test:

• The cloned site is exactly the same as the original, except for Kinsta’s optimized hosting.
• Original site is hosted in Michigan
• Kinsta clone is hosted in Iowa (GCP’s US Central datacenter)
• Test was conducted out of Dallas by GTmetrix

Here are the results:

The clone hosted on Kinsta has totally killed the original’s website speed. It went from 2.9s to 1.1s, improving the load time by 163.6%! With some further tweaks we can get the site loading in under 1s. That’s like going from a boring Toyota Camry to a Koenigsegg Agera RS!

I’m not exactly sure how Kinsta improves the speed so much, but when you host on Kinsta you get:

• GZIP compression enabled by default – that’s how the total page size is less than the original
• PHP 7.x by default – allows WordPress & plugins to run twice as fast
• HTTP/2 protocol for faster transfers
• Advanced, yet worry-free caching

ClickWP has been hosted with Kinsta since 2014 and I’ve been very satisfied with the performance, features and support we get. It really does feel premium. It also feels that I should be paying a lot more money for what I’m currently getting.

I know our website could be faster if I spend the time and money to tweak it, but I also know it could be slower on inferior hosting. For me, it’s a no brainer to host with Kinsta.

Kinsta has recently introduced entry-level plans starting at $30/mo. At the very least, go check them out. Switch to Kinsta and break your website’s speed limits!

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P.S. For the speed geeks, here’s the GTmetrix comparison report. And here are the HAR files in case the report is archived and deleted.