A2Hosting Shared Hosting Speed Test

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If you are planning to buy A2Hosting, and you want to know the performance of A2Hosting shared plans, then you are in the right place. In this blog post, We will test the speed and performance of A2Hosting shared hosting hosting with 10+ different and extensive tests.

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A2Hosting

A2Hosting was established in 2001 in Ann Arbor, Michigan and was known as Iniquinet back then. Currently, A2Hosting is the most known name in the shared hosting and WordPress hosting. A2Hosting offers Shared hosting, VPS hosting, Reseller hosting and dedicated hosting.

In this particular blog post, we will talk about A2Hosting shared hosting plans.

Plans & Pricing

A2Hosting offers four different shared hostin plans. Startup, Drive, Turbo Boost, and Turbo Max. With the Turbo Boost and Turbo Max plan, you will get Turbo servers, NVME storage, and LiteSpeed servers (Best for high traffic websites). A2Hosting recommends the Turbo Boost plan and also to test the NMVE storage and LiteSpeed servers, I choose the Turbo Boost plan.

Testing Environment

To test A2Hosting speed and performance, I bought a plan. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will already know that I create the same testing website when I perform speed tests. After buying the plan, I installed WordPress and connected it with my domain which I bought from NameCheap.

I do not want to run tests on a blank website, so I installed Blocksy Theme and one of its demo websites called ‘Tasty.’ I have to install four additional extra plugins with the demo website: Blocksy Companion, WP Forms Lite, Stackable, Recipe Card Blocks by WPZOOM.

Hosting: A2Hosting
Plan: Shared – Turbo Boost
Server Location: Arizona (US West Coast)
WordPress Version: 5.8
Themes: Blocksy (Active), Twenty twenty One
Plugins: Blocksy Companion, WP Forms Lite, Stackable, Recipe Card Blocks by WPZOOM

After setting this testing environment, I did not perform any extra optimizations like caching, Image compressing, modification, or any other kind of speed improvement. It would be best if you always did these optimizations to improve your website, but I wanted to know the actual performance of A2Hosting without any optimizations.

Quick Disclaimer:
I want to inform you guys that all the results are honest and authentic in this blog post. Also, this blog post is not sponsored by A2Hosting or any other hosting. To do these kinds of tests, I have to spend a lot of money from my pocket, So I would like to request that if you want to buy A2Hosting or any other hosting, please use our affiliate links. You will get an extra discount, and this website will earn a small amount of commission from it. So, we can do more feature speed tests, reviews, and comparisons without any sponsors.

Now, without wasting your precious time, let’s start testing.

TTFB Test

TTFB stands for time to first byte. To put it simply, this is a measurement of how long the browser has to wait before receiving its first byte of data from the server. The longer it takes to get that data, the longer it takes to display your page.

TTFB depends on the Hosting server, Themes, and plugins. But most of the part is played by the hosting server. If hosting using a high-performance server, you will get low TTFB, and if hosting uses a standard specifications server, it will be high.

Most of the hostings stores your website files in a single location. From that server, the hosting will send all the files to the visitors. If your hosting server is located in the USA, your website will get very low TTFB in the USA, Canada, and European countries. But it will be much higher in Asia and Australia.

Therefore when you buy hosting from any of the providers, try to choose the nearest server location from your website’s audience. (not closest to you but closest to your website users)

When visitors come to your website, the browser will send all the requests and ask for the required files to the hosting server. After that, hosting will send an initial reply to the browser. Now, the time between browser requests and hosting initial response will be called TTFB.

Your website will load fast if your hosting TTFB is low. Means, as low is the TTFB of your website, visitor have to wait for less. By this, the bounce rate of your website can decrease drastically.

TTFB can be different from location to location and time to time. Therefore, we will do multiple tests from multiple worldwide locations. So, we can get the best accurate value. In the TTFB test, we will use three different tools and will take five different results.

KeyCDN TTFB Test

TTFB test one is done from KeyCDN Tools. This tool will measure the TTFB from 10 different worldwide locations. I have taken three different results of this test from different other days.

Server Location	Test 1	Test 2	Test 3	Average
Frankfurt	866 ms	564 ms	699 ms	709 ms
Amsterdam	594 ms	618 ms	649 ms	620 ms
London	603 ms	617 ms	627 ms	615 ms
New York	358 ms	326 ms	352 ms	345 ms
Dallas	236 ms	254 ms	222 ms	237 ms
San Francisco	243 ms	225 ms	232 ms	233 ms
Singapore	784 ms	696 ms	718 ms	732 ms
Sydney	708 ms	655 ms	646 ms	669 ms
Tokyo	589 ms	480 ms	528 ms	532 ms
Bangalore	959 ms	831 ms	795 ms	861 ms
Global Average	594 ms	526 ms	546 ms	555 ms

GT Metrix TTFB Test

TTFB test two is done from GTMetrix. I have done seven different tests to measure the TTFB from seven different locations.

Server Location	TTFB
Vancouver, Canada	451 ms
Hong Kong, China	910 ms
London, UK	584 ms
Mumbai, India	1.2 s
San Antonio, TX, USA	351 ms
Sydney, Australia	1.1 ms
São Paulo, Brazil	936 ms
Global Average	790 ms

Fast or Slow TTFB Test

TTFB test three is done from Fast or Slow. Fast or Slow will measure the website TTFB and Speed from 18 worldwide locations. This is the heaviest test from all of the tests.

Server Location	TTFB
S Africa	1099 ms
Sweden	981 ms
India	999 ms
France	773 ms
England	610 ms
Ireland	662 ms
S Korea	844 ms
Bahrain	1014 ms
Japan	636 ms
Brazil	693 ms
Canada	436 ms
Hong Kong	783 ms
Singapore	916 ms
Australia	741 ms
Germany	733 ms
USA (VA)	388 ms
USA (OH)	391 ms
USA (OR)	390 ms
Global Average	727 ms

Here is the end of the TTFB tests, now we will start the Speed Test.

Speed Test

We will measure the website’s fully loaded time and some core web vitals in the Speed test. The website’s fully loaded time and core web vitals can depend on Hosting servers, Themes, Plugins, and testing page content. But, as I told you before, We used the same testing environment to avoid the Theme, Plugins, and testing page content.

Google PageSpeed

If you want to rank higher in Google search, you should strictly follow the Google Core web vitals. You can measure these parameters from the Google PageSpeed Insights tool, which is the official testing tool of Google.

Therefore, we will do our first speed test in Google PageSpeed Insights. Speed Index and Time to Interactive are parameters we should follow. Google PageSpeed Insights results are not consistent. Therefore, I will conduct three different tests on separate days to get the most accurate results.

Mobile

Metrics	Test 1	Test 2	Test 3	Average
Score	93	90	92	91
First Contentful Paint	2.5 s	2.5 s	2.5 s	2.5 s
Time to Interactive	3.0 s	3.0 s	3.1 s	3.0 s
Speed Index	3.2 s	4.5 s	2.6 s	3.4 s
Total Blocking Time	110 ms	110 ms	140 ms	120 ms
Largest Contentful Paint	2.5 s	2.5 s	2.5 s	2.5 s
Cumulative Layout Shift	0.003	0.003	0.003	0.003

Desktop

Metrics	Test 1	Test 2	Test 3	Average
Score	98	98	98	98
First Contentful Paint	0.7 s	0.7 s	0.7 s	0.7 s
Time to Interactive	0.7 s	0.7 s	0.7 s	0.7 s
Speed Index	1.2 s	1.5 s	1.2 s	1.3 s
Total Blocking Time	0 ms	0 ms	0 ms	0 ms
Largest Contentful Paint	0.8 s	0.7 s	0.9 s	0.7 s
Cumulative Layout Shift	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001

Pingdom Test

The second speed test is done with Pingdom from seven different worldwide locations. Load time is the factor that we will consider in this test.

Server Location	Load time	Page Size
Tokyo – Japan	2.17 s	1.9 MB
Frankfurt – Germany	2.45 s	1.9 MB
London – UK	1.95 s	1.9 MB
Washington D.C. – USA	1.03 s	1.9 MB
San Francisco – USA	1.08 s	1.9 MB
Sydney – Australia	2.56 s	1.9 MB
São Paulo – Brazil	2.86 s	1.9 MB
Global Average	2.01 s	1.9 MB

GTMetrix Test

The third speed test is done with the GTMetrix tool from seven different worldwide locations. GTMetrix is based on Google PageSpeed Insights. You should look up to Fully Loaded time. I have taken seven different tests from all of the seven locations of GTMetrix. At last, you will see the global average results.

Server Location	Performance	First Contentful Paint	Time to Interactive	Speed Index	Fully Loaded Time
Vancouver, Canada	93%	1.1 s	1.2 ms	1.1 ms	1.3 s
Hong Kong, China	72%	1.9 s	2.1 s	2.0 s	2.5 s
London, UK	87%	1.4 s	1.4 s	1.4 s	1.7 s
Mumbai, India	57%	2.4 s	4.1 s	2.5 s	4.1 s
San Antonio, TX, USA	98%	786 ms	962 ms	839 ms	1.0 s
Sydney, Australia	64%	2.0 s	2.4 s	2.4 s	3.5 s
São Paulo, Brazil	70%	1.9 s	2.1 s	2.0 s	2.5 s

Global Average Fully Loaded Time: 2.37 s

KeyCDN Speed Test

The fourth speed test is done with KeyCDN Tools. There are ten different worldwide locations in the KeyCDN Testing tool. We can measure the website load time, page size, requests, and performance grade with this tool. Page size, requests, and performance grade will be quite the same in all of the tests.

Server Location	Test 1	Test 2	Test 3	Average
Frankfurt	1.89 s	1.95 s	1.87 s	1.90 s
Amsterdam	1.87 s	2.04 s	1.97 s	1.96 s
London	1.94 s	1.95 s	1.98 s	1.95 s
New York	1.15 s	1.14 s	1.18 s	1.15 s
Dallas	1.14 s	1.1 s	1.13 s	1.12 s
San Francisco	1.22 s	1.34 s	1.4 s	1.32 s
Singapore	2.46 s	2.57 s	2.49 s	2.50 s
Sydney	2.08 s	2.28 s	2.2 s	2.18 s
Tokyo	1.92 s	1.92 s	1.82 s	1.88 s
Bangalore	2.83 s	3.02 s	2.72 s	2.85 s
Global Average	1.85 s	1.93 s	1.87 s	1.88 s

Fast or Slow Speed Test

Test 5 is done with Fast or Slow from 18 different worldwide locations. In these results, we measure website interactive time. The Time to Interactive (TTI) metric measures how long it takes a page to become interactive to the site visitor.

Vital	Score
Performance Score	89
First Contentful Paint	64
Speed Index	91
Largest Contentful Paint	87
Time to Interactive	96
Total Blocking Time	100
Cumulative Layout Shift	100

Server Location	Interactive
S Africa	3003 ms
Sweden	2618 ms
India	3318 ms
France	2265 ms
England	2007 ms
Ireland	2224 ms
S Korea	2337 ms
Bahrain	3408 ms
Japan	1838 ms
Brazil	2356 ms
Canada	1354 ms
Hong Kong	2424 ms
Singapore	2742 ms
Australia	2682 ms
Germany	2461 ms
USA (VA)	1388 ms
USA (OH)	988 ms
USA (OR)	1014 ms
Global Average	2246 ms

All of the above tests are done where there was no live traffic on the website. To measure the performance of real-time hosting performance we have to do a load test.

Load Test

In the Load test, we will send some visitors to the testing website, and after the test, we can see the load handling performance of the hosting. To do the load test, I conducted two different tests. In the first test, I sent 100 virtual users to the website. In the second test, I send 250 virtual users to the testing website.

Response Times	100 Visits/Minute	250 Visits/Minute
Average	411 ms	566 ms
Minimum	342 ms	415 ms
Maximum	807 ms	998 ms
Success	100	250

Final Results

• Global Average TTFB: 555 ms
• Global Average Load Time: 1.88 s

Conclusion

Overall, A2Hosting is one of the most reliable and fastest shared hosting in the market. With the 4 worldwide datacenters, you can use A2Hosting for your any website. Also, NVME storage and LiteSpeed servers will help to load your website faster.

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