SiteGround has an overall score of 4.0 out of 5 stars, giving it a ranking of 30 of 429 web hosting providers.

To calculate SiteGround's score, we look at a range of factors and compare them with other brands in the website hosting space. We look at overall brand popularity, SiteGround's price point compared to other web hosting service, as well as reviews they've received from customers. We look at performance in key product criteria such as price point, speed, uptime, Wordpress support and free trials. We also look at e-commerce features such as payment options accepted, discount policies, shipping and returns policies, and other customer service features.

SiteGround is slightly more expensive than its competitors. We looked at SiteGround's pricing for one or more popular products within its industry, then compared SiteGround's prices vs. other similar website hosting services. Based on this analysis, SiteGround turned out to be slightly more expensive than other brands in the web hosting industry.

Here's how SiteGround's prices compare with its competitors:

• Basic Shared Web Hosting: $3.95 (vs. average industry price of $8.16)
• Basic Cloud Hosting: $80.00 (vs. average industry price of $32.02)
• Basic Dedicated Hosting: $269.00 (vs. average industry price of $148.38)

Please refer to SiteGround's website for more details on their products and pricing, or review our updated price comparison grid to compare SiteGround's prices with competitor brands in more detail.

— Knoji Staff reviewed SiteGround on December 13, 2018, Read 1 price point review.

Bitcatcha reports SiteGround's page loading time to be 148ms, and Google recommends anything under 200ms. Bitcatcha also brings up the important point that the regions closest to your data center will have the fastest response times. So make sure that you place your data center close to your target audience.

HostingFacts reported the speed as 714ms, which is pretty fast for their records. The data also didn't have a lot of variabilities so the website speed will not vary too much between uses.

— Rachel Auerbach reviewed SiteGround on November 14, 2018, Read 1 speed review.

SiteGround is one of the top web hosting platforms and is officially recommended by Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal. HostingFacts reported a 99.99% uptime during its 8-month test, which is 0.05% higher than the average. HostingFacts explained how SiteGround was able to maintain such a high uptime:

"They built their own proactive server monitoring system that monitors their servers every 0.5 seconds and also proactively fixes any problems without human intervention, thus ensuring amazing uptime."

Another review from Bitcatcha showed that SiteGround has had 100% uptime since 2014! Their platform checks on SiteGround every 5 minutes and has not found any downtime in over four years.

— Rachel Auerbach reviewed SiteGround on November 14, 2018, Read 1 uptime review.