Using web transparency data from the Chrome UX Report and HTTP Archive, this project aims to benchmark hosting providers using real user data. The metric used in this project is TTFB, the time to first byte.
This is still a work in progress, but for an in depth methodology of a WordPress-specific version of this study, see http://bit.ly/ttfb-crux-wp.
If you'd like to add a new host, you'll need to do three things:
X-Powered-By: YourHost
ttfb.sql
on BigQuery and update ttfb.json with the resultsList of available datasets: