Hostinger Performance Scorecard

Overall Rating: 87/100

Last Tested: May 2026

Quick Summary

Best For: Beginners, Bloggers, Small Business Sites with Lighter Traffic
Starting Price: $2.99 mo.
Test Date: 5/28/2026
Test Server: Shared Hosting
Data Center: Phoenix, AZ
WordPress Version: 7.0
PHP Version: 8.4
Theme: Astra Pro

Benchmark Results

Speed Benchmark

GTmetrix Results

Metric	Results	Rating
Performance	100%	Outstanding
Structure	96%	Excellent
TTFB	165ms	Excellent
FCP	329ms	Excellent
LCP	352ms	Excellent
CLS	0	Outstanding
Fully Loaded	352ms	Outstanding

Load Testing

Concurrent Clients: 250
Avg. Response: 2313ms
Error Rate: 22.1%

Result: FAILED

WooCommerce Performance

Final Verdict

Who should buy Hostinger?
Beginners and WordPress website owners that need fast website hosting at a low price (including renewal rates) should consider Hostinger. In our testing, Hostinger performed extremely well with fast page loading and good core web vitals. However, keep in mind that Hostinger is better suited towards light to moderate traffic sites. Unfortunately, Hostinger did not perform well in our load testing. So, if you expect heavy traffic and traffic spikes, it’s not the best fit.

Who shouldn’t buy Hostinger?
Heavy traffic WordPress sites and mission-critical applications would be better hosted by a managed WordPress host or Cloud VPS. As I mentioned above, while Hostinger performed well in our isolated tests, they struggled with our load testing with 250 clients.