Hostinger WordPress Performance Review 2026: 90-Day Benchmark Report

We set up a realistic WordPress site on Hostinger's Business plan ($3.99/mo) in the US East (Ashburn, VA) data center:

• WordPress 6.7 with Astra theme
• 20 active plugins including WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, WP Forms, Wordfence, LiteSpeed Cache
• 50 WooCommerce products with images
• 150 blog posts with featured images
• LiteSpeed Cache configured: full-page cache, WebP images, CSS/JS minification

Monitoring: UptimeRobot (1-minute checks), WebPageTest (daily automated tests from 5 locations), custom k6 load testing (weekly), and Google PageSpeed Insights (weekly).

Time to First Byte (TTFB) — how fast the server responds with the first byte of HTML:

• US East (same region): 42ms cached, 178ms uncached (average)
• US West: 95ms cached, 230ms uncached
• London, UK: 110ms cached (with CDN), 312ms uncached (without CDN)
• Singapore: 180ms cached (with CDN), 495ms uncached
• São Paulo: 155ms cached (with CDN), 420ms uncached

Cached TTFB of 42ms from the same region is exceptional for shared hosting — comparable to premium hosts like Kinsta and WP Engine. CDN narrows the gap significantly for international visitors.

UptimeRobot logged 99.98% uptime over 90 days:

• Total monitoring period: 2,160 hours
• Total downtime: 26 minutes (one incident)
• Incident details: 26-minute outage on day 47 during apparent server maintenance. Hostinger's status page acknowledged the event.
• No other incidents: Site was accessible on every other 1-minute check for 89 of 90 days

99.98% uptime translates to about 1.5 hours of potential annual downtime — well within industry standards and better than many premium hosts we've tested.

We ran weekly load tests using k6, ramping from 10 to 500 concurrent virtual users over 10 minutes:

• 10 concurrent users: 45ms avg response, 0 errors
• 50 concurrent users: 52ms avg response, 0 errors
• 100 concurrent users: 68ms avg response, 0 errors
• 200 concurrent users: 142ms avg response, 0 errors
• 300 concurrent users: 248ms avg response, 0.1% errors (timeouts)
• 500 concurrent users: 485ms avg response, 2.3% errors

LiteSpeed Cache handles up to 200 concurrent users flawlessly on the Business plan. 300+ concurrent users (equivalent to 100K+ monthly visitors with moderate page-per-session) starts showing stress. Upgrade to Cloud at this traffic level.

Weekly PageSpeed Insights testing (average of 12 weeks):

• Mobile: 91/100 (range: 88-94)
• Desktop: 97/100 (range: 95-99)
• Core Web Vitals (lab): LCP 1.8s ✅ | INP 128ms ✅ | CLS 0.02 ✅
• Core Web Vitals (field, CrUX): LCP 2.1s ✅ | INP 95ms ✅ | CLS 0.04 ✅

All Core Web Vitals passing in both lab and field data. The 91 mobile score is achieved with a realistic site (20 plugins, WooCommerce, real content) — not a minimal test install. This is what a real Hostinger WordPress site delivers with proper LiteSpeed Cache configuration.

Performance comparison at similar price points (all Business/equivalent plans):

• Hostinger ($3.99/mo): 178ms TTFB | 99.98% uptime | 91 mobile PageSpeed
• Bluehost ($7.99/mo regular): 380ms TTFB | 99.94% uptime | 74 mobile PageSpeed
• SiteGround ($14.99/mo regular): 155ms TTFB | 99.99% uptime | 93 mobile PageSpeed
• GoDaddy ($11.99/mo): 420ms TTFB | 99.90% uptime | 68 mobile PageSpeed

Hostinger delivers SiteGround-tier performance at a fraction of the cost. Only SiteGround's Google Cloud infrastructure edges Hostinger in raw TTFB — by 23ms, which is imperceptible to humans. At $3.99 vs $14.99, Hostinger's value proposition is overwhelming.