Web Hosting Speed Compared: Pantheon Passes 61.2%, Bluehost 30.4%

    We grouped roughly 11 million sites by hosting provider and measured real-user field data. The best host (Pantheon, 61% pass) beats the worst (Bluehost, 30%) two to one, with managed WordPress on top and budget shared hosting at the bottom.

    Core Web Vitals pass rate by hosting provider (mobile)
    Pantheon (Managed)
    61.2%
    WP Engine (Managed WP)
    55.5%
    Hetzner (Cloud)
    54.6%
    Fastly (CDN)
    48.7%
    GoDaddy (Shared)
    46.5%
    Cloudflare (CDN)
    43.2%
    AWS (Cloud)
    40.3%
    Vercel (Jamstack)
    33.5%
    Netlify (Jamstack)
    33.1%
    Bluehost (Shared)
    30.4%

    Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis of roughly 11 million origins with CrUX field data, mobile, June 2026.

    Managed WordPress hosts cluster at the top and budget shared hosts anchor the bottom.

    Source: Web Hosting Speed Compared: Pantheon Passes 61.2%, Bluehost 30.4% - PageSpeed Matters