How our hosting service can improve your website's speed and performance

How to actually test your hosting speed

Do not guess — measure. Google PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix both give you a breakdown of load time and specific bottlenecks. The single most telling number is Time to First Byte (TTFB): how long the server takes to start responding, before any page content even begins downloading. A slow TTFB (over ~600ms) almost always points to the hosting itself, not your page design.

The technical levers, in more depth

• HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 — lets browsers load multiple assets over one connection instead of queuing them.
• PHP-FPM tuning (for PHP sites) — enough worker processes to handle concurrent requests without queuing.
• A CDN — serves static assets from a location near the visitor instead of your origin server.
• Object/opcode caching — avoids rebuilding the same page or query results on every request.

Any one of these missing can undo the benefit of the others — a fast server behind a slow, uncached PHP setup still feels slow to visitors.

A simple before/after check

Run a speed test before switching hosts and again a week after, using the same tool both times — a direct before/after comparison is far more convincing (and useful for your own decision-making) than trusting a host's general performance claims.

Keep a simple record of your site's load time at a few points over the year — a gradual slowdown is much easier to catch with historical data than by memory alone.