Page speed (Load Speed) is a big deal when it comes to website performance. After you have optimized the website, you should make sure your hosting company has enough juice.
Companies like Godaddy, Bluehost, 1and1, and network solutions just don’t have it. They are cheap, which may work for startups, but if you are serious about website performance you need to upgrade.
Speed matters and hosting can make a big difference.
Here is an example of the exact same website that is being hosted by two different hosting companies. We like to use wpengine for our clients. Since we have a lot of different websites we share the expense.
Our hosting vs the other guys hosting.
You can test your speed by going to Google Page Speed.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Here are the results.
Our Hosting
