The good news is that Bluehost easily surpasses this benchmark, comfortably keeping our test site live for 99.96% of the time during the last 12 months (April 2020 to March 2021). The total downtime was a bit less than four hours for the whole year.
Here’s the breakdown of Bluehost’s average uptime in the past 12 months:
- March 2021: 100%
- February 2021: 99.97%
- January 2021: 100%
- December 2020: 99.98%
- November 2020: 100%
- October 2020: 99.67%
- September 2020: 100%
- August 2020: 99.99%
- July 2020: 99.98%
- June 2020: 100%
- May 2020: 99.90% (scheduled maintenance)
- April 2020: 99.99%
2. Fast Page Loading Speed (688 ms)
Research conducted by Google found:
“As page load time goes from 1s to 3s the probability of bounce increases 32%.”
This translates to your visitors being 32% more likely to leave your site. And it only gets worse with longer page load times.
3. Low Introductory Pricing ($2.75/mo)
Bluehost’s default pricing starts at $3.95/month, which is an introductory price from the regular $8.99/month rate. Still, the cheapest plan does have a few restrictions that we’re not entirely happy with – but more about this later on.
4. One Free WordPress Site Transfer
If you already have a site and want to switch to Bluehost’s hosting plan, then this perk is for you.
Bluehost only recently started offering a free site transfer with all of their plans.
There are a couple of terms to this free service, though. First, the site needs to be a WordPress site. And secondly, you have to request the migration within the first 30 days after signing up with a hosting plan.
All you need to do is contact their customer support team and follow their directions. The migration usually takes around 1-3 business days to complete
9. The Official WordPress.org Recommended Host
WordPress is the most widely used website platform on the market – ~44% of the entire Internet is built with WordPress.
It’s safe to say that they have an authoritative word when it comes to hosting solutions. WordPress only officially recommends three hosting partners to use with a WordPress site:
Of course, you can use almost any web hosting provider to create a WordPress site. But the fact that Bluehost is one of the few officially recognized partners is encouraging.
