WP Cloud is the new managed cloud hosting offering, bringing to everyone the performance, reliability and ease of use which mainly large corporate users enjoyed before. With WP Cloud, small businesses and individuals can enjoy the benefits of a managed WP Cloud hosting that boosts their sites considerably.
Today we will be benchmarking a fresh WordPress site on WP Cloud to see how fast a WordPress site on WP Cloud can be. The theme we are going to use is NimblePress, a lean and optimized free theme. We will be using Google Pagespeed Insights to do the benchmark. We will be using the live demo location of the theme here to benchmark different pages.
Home Page Benchmark
Benchmarking the home page with mobile option, we get the below results:
First contentful paint happens within the first second, and the site is immediately viewable by the user:
On top of this, the test is made with slow 4G throttling. The result is 100 performance score.
Maybe an even more impressive result for the homepage is the 10 ms time to first byte:
And these results are without serving images with next generation formats and in low resolutions:
Excellent results for a home page that lists multiple posts and serves featured images along them.
The SEO score is just at ~82 as the benchmark site has no SEO work done on it.
Individual Page
Benchmarking a sub page, the results are even better as the page does not need to list multiple posts:
It scores 100 on everything, with benchmark indexes similar to the home page – a pretty good result. This could be a contact page, a terms of service or privacy page. Normally putting images on such pages should impact the SEO scores a little bit.
Individual Blog Post
The individual blog post contains large images, so it should have an impact on some metrics:
Presence of images in the post does impact some metrics, but ups the time for first contentful paint only 0.1 seconds. As the image is at the top of the post, it pushes the largest contentful paint high enough, by 0.7 seconds. This is a pretty high speed for a normal blog post still.
The user experience is effected slightly, as the post rendering at the start of the next second. Despite being fast, this points to the importance of optimizing image delivery on WP sites.
Search
The search page keeps the performance of the main page:
The page is immediately viewable by the user on a throttled, slow 4G device within the first second:
SEO score is lower, as this page does not have any SEO work on it.
Conclusion
WP Cloud provides an impressive performance boost for WordPress sites, especially when it comes to time to first byte and speeds that affect user experience. These results should translate equally well into larger sites as the cloud infrastructure would provide the same resources to larger sites with more plugins, even if the number and size of the plugins installed should have an impact on the performance. You can sign up with us here to host your site on WP Cloud and benefit from these performance improvements.
We will do a large site benchmark with many plugins in near future. To hear when the benchmark is posted, follow us on X.
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