Section
Benchmarks
Throughput and cost per performance tests, with the environment, method and raw data published.
Article
PageSpeed, Lighthouse, GTmetrix and WebPageTest: what each actually measures
Lighthouse is a lab audit; PageSpeed Insights pairs it with field data from real Chrome users; GTmetrix and WebPageTest run their own tests from locations you choose. What each tool is for, why their scores disagree, and the workflow that uses field data to find problems and lab data to fix them.
27 October 2026Article
Why most hosting benchmarks are worthless
21 October 2026Article
TTFB: what it means, what moves it, and when to stop caring
15 October 2026Article
How to load test your WordPress site without lying to yourself
The method for a fair WordPress load test: replay a realistic traffic mix, test cached and uncached paths separately, ramp instead of flooding, repeat the runs, and read error rates and percentiles before averages. With what each family of tool is good for, and how to interpret what the numbers say.
13 October 2026
Benchmark
Managed WordPress throughput benchmark
How we benchmark managed WordPress hosting, and how to run the same test yourself: what to measure, how to keep runs comparable across hosts, and the mistakes that make most published hosting benchmarks worthless. Measured results follow in updates as the runs complete.
8 October 2026