: Are there any sites that measure the page response speed of various hosting companies? I'm looking for the equivalent of consumer reports for hosting companies. But I would be happy with any

@Lengel546

Short answer: I don't know & I don't think there will be one that will provide an objective assessment due to the complexity involved and the lack of incentive.

Long answer: A metrics-based approach to pick a good host is a great idea. However, it will be hard to compare as there are a lot of factors (like cost, geography, uptime, support, web server platform, visitor count) not just response time that decide whether a hosting company is good. One of 2 competing sites that we compare could host its static assets on a CDN while picking an average-rated Host. Unless you factor in all these attributes, it would be like comparing apples & oranges.

For a subjective assessment, you may find these sites helpful - HTTParchive.org (which tracks response times & other stats for a large number of sites) & Netcraft (which tracks Hosting companies).

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@Sarah324

BestHostRatings.com has an Uptime Report which may be of some interest, however, having worked at various hosting companies, I should qualify that recommendation by stating that (a) only the most amateurish companies will host their own sites on servers used for customer sites and (b) larger companies will implement redundant sites (i.e. they will have multiple datacenters) and will likely show no downtime, as datacenter outages are generally few and far between (and the likelihood of multiple datacenters with multiple uplinks going down simultaneously isn't very good).

In short, the performance of a company's own site has very little to do with the performance you can expect from a site hosted with the company.

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