PERFORMANCE
How Is Liquid Web’s Performance?
Liquid Web will make sure your website is (almost) never down, but don’t expect it to load with blazing speed.
If I had high expectations for Liquid Web in one aspect, it was performance. After all, it’s a premium hosting provider that caters mostly to business clients.
Liquid Web offers a 100% network and power uptime guarantee backed by an unheard-of 1,000% compensation for downtime.
The uptime history is actually published on the company’s website. According to the detailed chart, there was only one month with downtime (June, with 99.84% uptime) during the entire year of 2018.
That’s impressive, but uptime isn’t everything. You know your visitors aren’t going to sit around waiting for your site to load. You want it to load fast – really fast. I decided to run a Sucuri page load test to see what Liquid Web has to offer in terms of speed.
I was surprised to see that Liquid Web only scored a grade A. The highest grade is A+, and I’ve seen other top hosts achieve it easily.
Sure, this doesn’t translate to much of a difference in terms of actual loading times, with most U.S. locations loading in between 200 and 500ms. But still, I was expecting a perfect score.
Australia and India performed pretty badly, but this is the case with most hosts. What was particularly disappointing was that India actually crossed the two-second mark. That is the point where you start to lose a significant number of visitors.
