how changing my hosting company to wp engine earned me an extra $16,609
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Moving my hosting to WP Engine increased the speed of my blog and the conversions were amazing! Find out how much it actually increased my personal statistisTRANSCRIPT
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by Matthew Woodward
WP Engine Review – How Changing Host Earnt Me An Extra$16,609
WPEngine employs WordPress specialists who know it like the back of their hand. This is great when you havea WordPress problem that other hosts would shrug their shoulders at. Nevermind the huge benef its ofincreased speed & conversions!
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As traf f ic grew to my site towards the end of 2012 I started to get complaints over load time.
I started to investigate this and was aware that a 1 second delay in load time decreased conversion by 7%.
That not might sound much but based on my blogs perf ormance that equated to $8,998 per year f or EACHSECOND of additional load time.
You can use this conversion calculator to work out how much money your losing out on.
I decided that I needed to move away f rom my cheap shared hosting and came across WPEngine thatspecialise in two things.
WordPress and speed – perf ect!
Original Performance
Page Miami London Delhi
Home 5.293s 4.772s 6.492s
Tutorial 7.799s 8.173s 9.127s
Forum 5.894s 5.594s 6.520s
Average: 6.629 seconds
WPEngine Performance
Page Miami Time Saving London Time Saving Delhi Time Saving
Home 3.888s -1.405s 4.166s -0.606s 5.646s -0.846s
Tutorial 6.788s -1.011s 4.527s -3.646s 7.304s -1.720s
Forum 4.764s -1.130s 4.966s -0.628s 5.82s -0.700s
Average: 5.333 seconds
Moving to WPEngine decreased load time by 1.299 seconds which is worth $11,675 per year to me – at a total
cost of just $324 per year.
WP Engine & CDN Performance
Page Miami Time Saving London Time Saving Delhi Time Saving
Home 3.888s -1.405s 4.166s -0.606s 5.646s -0.846s
Tutorial 6.788s -1.011s 4.527s -3.646s 7.304s -1.720s
Forum 4.764s -1.130s 4.966s -0.628s 5.82s -0.700s
Average: 4.781 seconds
Enabling the CDN decreased load time by an additional 0.549 seconds making f or an extra $4,934 per year,however the CDN addon does cost $19.95 per month / $239 per year.