However, our WP Engine test site took just 582ms to load, which is faster than 96% of all sites tested.
After the Pingdom test, we tested whether the hosting servers could survive a surge in traffic using a tool called Load Impact. We sent a few virtual users to our sites and gradually increased the number of visitors to 100 at a time to see how the servers performed.
In our test, it was clear that the number of active visitors does not have any negative impact on the WP Engine website.
loadimpact hostgator
Our HostGator site was responsive until we had about 80 visitors at rich people database a time. As traffic increased, it started to slow down a bit.
bitcatcha-hostgator
According to our Bitcatcha test, our HostGator server responded in less than a second worldwide. Overall performance was rated C by BitCatcha, while WP Engine was rated A by BitCatcha.