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What bothered me was not the commissions. It was that almost none of those pages showed their work. A number would appear with no source attached, and there was no way for a reader to check it or to reproduce it.
So this site takes the opposite approach. I do not test these tools on my own sites and I do not pretend to. What I do is read the documentation, pull the published benchmark and field data, work through the complaints that keep recurring in support forums, and tell you where those three disagree. When a number is not verifiable, I say that instead of inventing one.
My Timeline
Vendor documentation first
Plan limits, pricing, guarantees and contractual features are checked against current vendor pages.
Published measurements second
Performance numbers are used only when their source and context are clear; setup-dependent claims are labeled.
User reports as context
Recurring forum reports can identify failure modes, but anecdotes are not presented as controlled tests.
Commercial disclosure
Affiliate relationships are disclosed before commercial content and do not substitute for evidence.
Material updates dated
The visible update date changes when pricing, plan structure, evidence or conclusions are materially revised.
How I Review
These reviews are not presented as first-hand product tests. Every review here is a synthesis of published sources, and each one names the sources it leans on.
The order is always the same. The vendor's own documentation comes first, because that is where plan limits, resource caps and renewal terms are actually stated rather than implied. Then published performance data: Google’s Core Web Vitals thresholds and the field measurements behind them, rather than a single synthetic run on a machine you cannot see. Then the forums, where the same complaint turning up across hundreds of threads carries more weight than any single benchmark.
Where I quote a figure, I tell you whose figure it is. When they contradict each other, that contradiction goes in the review; it is usually the most useful thing on the page. And where something can only be settled on your own site, the review points you at the free tool that settles it: PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix both report on a URL you own, in about a minute.
I earn affiliate commissions from some of the tools covered here, disclosed on every page. Rankings are not sold and commission rates do not change the order.
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Spotted a figure that has gone stale, or want to point me at a source I missed? Use the contact form. Corrections are the most useful mail this site gets, and they do get made.