The Fastest Web Hosting, Measured With Real User Data

What is the fastest web hosting right now?

Using response times real Chrome users saw in June 2026, the quickest fleets are Seravo (596ms) and One.com (599ms), the only two providers whose entire customer base stayed under 600 milliseconds for Time To First Byte. Close behind sit the static and edge platforms GitHub Pages (639ms) and Vercel (667ms), then Hetzner Online (681ms). These are not lab runs on a single demo site. They are the 75th-percentile response time across every customer site each host runs that gets enough traffic for Google to record.

That last point is the story. Pause on it.

Why is this different from every other "fastest hosting" list?

Most hosting speed round-ups follow the same script: sign up for one plan, spin up one demo site, point a tool at it a few times, then pretend that lone number represents the whole host. It is cheap to produce, easy to flatter a provider with a brand-new empty site on a nearby server, and it tells you very little about how your site will behave once it has real content and real visitors.

HostList does the opposite. Instead of one site we control, we look at all of a host's customer sites at once, using the response times Google already gathers from actual Chrome users. For the 36 fleets with enough traffic to measure in June 2026, that is more than two million individual customer sites. GoDaddy alone accounts for over 575,000 of them. No demo site stands in for that. The fleet does.

What exactly are we measuring?

The metric is TTFB, or Time To First Byte: how long the server takes to start sending the page after the browser asks for it. We use TTFB on purpose. Of the common speed metrics, it is the one most attributable to the host's own infrastructure. Later metrics like Largest Contentful Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift depend far more on how the site owner built the page, so they say more about the developer than the host. TTFB is where the server itself shows up.

The data comes from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX), Google's public record of how real Chrome users experienced real websites. Every number here is a 28-day, 75th-percentile reading: three out of four page loads were at least that fast. We only publish a fleet once at least 100 of its customer sites carry enough Chrome traffic to appear in CrUX, so no host is judged on a handful of cherry-picked origins. The raw CrUX data is public, but mapping millions of origins to the host that actually serves them, then rolling that up into one honest fleet number, is the part nobody else does.

The fastest web hosting fleets

Here are the fastest providers by phone TTFB (75th percentile) for June 2026, with the number of customer sites in each fleet:

• Seravo (Finland): 596ms, 1,883 sites. Specialist managed WordPress host, and the fastest fleet in the dataset.
• One.com (Denmark): 599ms, 21,827 sites. The fastest result at real scale, across a fleet more than ten times the size of Seravo's.
• GitHub Pages (US): 639ms, 11,134 sites. Static hosting, so speed is expected, and it earns the placement.
• Vercel (US): 667ms, 109,514 sites. Edge-served front ends across a very large fleet.
• Hetzner Online (Germany): 681ms, 11,829 sites. The fastest traditional server company on the list.
• Hostpoint (Switzerland): 695ms, 5,102 sites.
• Sakura Internet (Japan): 700ms, 53,888 sites.
• ALL-INKL.COM (Germany): 729ms, 36,739 sites.
• Xserver (Japan): 796ms, 88,355 sites.
• GoDaddy (US): 796ms, 575,262 sites. The largest fleet in the data is still under 800ms.

A clear pattern: the truly quick end mixes boutique European and Japanese hosts (Seravo, One.com, Hostpoint, ALL-INKL.COM, Sakura, Xserver) with static and edge platforms (GitHub Pages, Vercel). If you are comparing like with like, GitHub Pages and Vercel sit in a different category from a traditional shared or WordPress host, and their numbers reflect that. Among conventional hosting companies, One.com and Hetzner are the standouts.

Phone or desktop?

The figures above are phone readings, because most web traffic is mobile and phones are the harsher test. Desktop is usually quicker on the same fleets: Vercel drops from 667ms on phone to 426ms on desktop, GitHub Pages from 639ms to 436ms, and even GoDaddy's huge fleet improves to 626ms. The ranking barely shifts. Hosts that are fast on phone stay fast on desktop, and the slow ones stay slow, with Flywheel still last at 1,713ms. That consistency matters. If a provider only looks good when you test it once on a wired desktop connection, the fleet data will not let it hide.

What about the fastest WordPress and VPS hosting?

For WordPress specifically, the fastest fleet in the data is Seravo at 596ms, a host that runs nothing but managed WordPress. The more telling lesson is at the other end: one of the best-known premium managed-WordPress brands, Flywheel, posts the slowest fleet in the entire dataset at 1,766ms. Paying a managed-WordPress premium does not guarantee a fast server.

For VPS and server hosting, the spread is just as wide. Hetzner Online, popular for cloud and dedicated servers, runs at 681ms, while the budget VPS provider Contabo sits near the bottom at 1,279ms. "VPS" is not a speed tier on its own. The provider decides it.

Which hosts are the slowest?

We publish the slow numbers too, including for hosts that market heavily on speed. By phone TTFB (75th percentile) in June 2026, the slowest fleets were:

• Flywheel: 1,766ms (10,348 sites)
• Bluehost: 1,361ms (33,917 sites)
• HostGator: 1,309ms (40,448 sites)
• DreamHost: 1,309ms (18,583 sites)
• SiteGround: 1,248ms (96,959 sites)

The budget shared-hosting names (Bluehost, HostGator, DreamHost) clustering here is no surprise. SiteGround is the more interesting case: it is one of the most heavily promoted "fast" hosts in the affiliate world, yet across nearly 97,000 real customer sites its fleet TTFB is roughly double what the leaders manage. That gap is exactly what a single demo-site test hides and a fleet measurement exposes.

The honest limitation

TTFB is server responsiveness, not total page speed. A quick first byte still leaves room for a slow, heavy page if the site itself is bloated, and a host's fleet number is not purely the host's doing. It partly reflects the sites its customers build and the code they run. Smaller fleets are noisier as well. Seravo's 596ms comes from under 2,000 sites, so it is a less settled figure than One.com's across nearly 22,000. Treat these as strong directional signals about a host's infrastructure, not a promise for any one site. Your own build still decides a great deal.

See the live numbers

These rankings refresh as new CrUX data lands. The current fleet TTFB table for every measured host sits on our Market Insights page, in the fleet TTFB section. If you want the full method, including how we attribute origins to hosts and why we set these thresholds, it is written up at how we measure hosting performance.