UpdraftPlus vs WP Staging Pro Backup Speed Battle

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UpdraftPlusPROvsWP Staging ProPRO

UpdraftPlus v1.24.2WP Staging Pro v6.7.0
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Speed (different scopes)
WP Staging Pro
14.1svs16.7s

Not comparable — plugins back up different data

Storage (different scopes)
UpdraftPlus
90 MBvs145 MB

Compared by compression ratio — different raw data sizes

Best Overall
Not Directly Comparable

These plugins back up different amounts of data — see the Backup Scope badges below. Speed and storage comparisons are not apples-to-apples.

Per-tier crashes

A crash is scoped to the hosting tier it happened on: the plugin loses that tier but is still measured on the tiers it survives.

  • WP Staging Proran out of memory during backuponsharedexit 137

⚠️Different backup scope -- results may not be directly comparable

One plugin backs up more data categories than the other, which affects both speed and archive size.

Backup Scope

UpdraftPlus
DBPluginsThemesUploadswp-configWP Core
WP Staging Pro
DBPluginsThemesUploadswp-configWP Core

⚠️ No WordPress core files (wp-admin, wp-includes). Restoring onto a bare server needs a separate WordPress install.

wp-config.php is not in the archive. Plugins that leave it out rebuild it during their own restore, so this is recorded rather than penalised. Why

Overall Median Times

UpdraftPlus
Backup
11.2s
Restore
5.6s
WP Staging Pro
Backup
8.4s
Restore
5.6s

Per-Profile Median Times

Median backup + restore time broken down by hosting profile.

Managed WordPress
UpdraftPlusTotal: 17.0s
Backup
11.3s
Restore
5.6s
WP Staging ProTotal: 14.1s
Backup
8.4s
Restore
5.6s
VPS Standard
UpdraftPlusTotal: 16.8s
Backup
11.2s
Restore
5.6s
WP Staging ProTotal: 14.3s
Backup
8.5s
Restore
5.8s

Backup Size & Efficiency

UpdraftPlus
Data backed up254.0 MB
Archive size90.0 MBGZ
Compression2.9:1
Throughput22.4 MB/s
Compression methodgzip
WP Staging Pro
Data backed up184.0 MB
Archive size145.0 MBWPSTG
Compression1.3:1
Throughput21.6 MB/s
Compression methodN/A (uncompressed format)

Backup Inventory

CategoryUpdraftPlusWP Staging ProDiff
FilesSizeFilesSizeFiles
Database165.4 KB00 B-1
Plugins9,358119.8 MB00 B-9,358
Themes39013.6 MB00 B-390
Uploads26118.2 MB5144.7 MB-256
WP Core2,78257.4 MB00 B-2,782
wp-config15.8 KB00 B-1
Other316.4 MB00 B-31
Total12,824215.4 MB5144.7 MB-12,819

Phase Breakdown

Iteration 4 (median)

UpdraftPlus
SCAN
0.0s
VERIFY
0.0s
ARCHIVE
8.9s
DB_EXPORT
1.6s
WP Staging Pro
SCAN
5.0s
VERIFY
0.1s
ARCHIVE
0.0s
DB_EXPORT
0.8s

Iteration Results

6 iterations across 2 hosting profiles -- median highlighted per profile. Compression shows archive-to-raw ratio (higher = better). * = no compression detected.

Managed WordPress3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
2
UpdraftPlus
11.3s5.7s17.0s
WP Staging Pro
8.5s5.6s14.2s
3
UpdraftPlus
11.1s5.6s16.7s
WP Staging Pro
8.4s5.2s13.6s
4Median
UpdraftPlus
11.3s5.6s17.0s
WP Staging Pro
8.4s5.6s14.1s
VPS Standard3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
5
UpdraftPlus
11.3s5.6s16.9s
WP Staging Pro
8.5s5.7s14.1s
6
UpdraftPlus
11.2s5.5s16.7s
WP Staging Pro
8.5s5.9s14.4s
7Median
UpdraftPlus
11.2s5.6s16.8s
WP Staging Pro
8.5s5.8s14.3s

Downloads

Metrics (CSV)Full Results (JSON)File Inventory — UpdraftPlus (TXT)File Inventory — WP Staging Pro (TXT)

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