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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🔒 SequentialWooCommerce Standard (M) — MNone Load
Speed (different scopes)
WP Staging Pro
20.0svs24.4s

Not comparable — plugins back up different data

Storage (different scopes)
UpdraftPlus
94 MBvs163 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
14.4s
Restore
9.9s
WP Staging Pro
Backup
10.0s
Restore
10.0s

Per-Profile Median Times

Median backup + restore time broken down by hosting profile.

Managed WordPress
UpdraftPlusTotal: 24.6s
Backup
14.4s
Restore
10.1s
WP Staging ProTotal: 20.0s
Backup
10.2s
Restore
10.0s
VPS Standard
UpdraftPlusTotal: 24.6s
Backup
14.5s
Restore
10.4s
WP Staging ProTotal: 20.5s
Backup
10.3s
Restore
10.1s

Backup Size & Efficiency

UpdraftPlus
Data backed up275.0 MB
Archive size94.0 MBGZ
Compression2.9:1
Throughput18.7 MB/s
Compression methodgzip
WP Staging Pro
Data backed up205.0 MB
Archive size163.0 MBWPSTG
Compression1.3:1
Throughput19.9 MB/s
Compression methodN/A (uncompressed format)

Backup Inventory

CategoryUpdraftPlusWP Staging ProDiff
FilesSizeFilesSizeFiles
Database1384.5 KB00 B-1
Plugins12,099135.8 MB00 B-12,099
Themes55818.6 MB00 B-558
Uploads2599.5 MB5162.0 MB-254
WP Core2,78257.4 MB00 B-2,782
wp-config15.8 KB00 B-1
Other306.5 MB00 B-30
Total15,730228.1 MB5162.0 MB-15,725

Phase Breakdown

Iteration 5 (median)

UpdraftPlus
SCAN
0.0s
VERIFY
0.0s
ARCHIVE
10.4s
DB_EXPORT
3.0s
WP Staging Pro
SCAN
9.1s
VERIFY
0.1s
ARCHIVE
0.0s
DB_EXPORT
1.5s

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
14.4s9.7s24.2s
WP Staging Pro
9.9s10.0s19.9s
3Median
UpdraftPlus
14.4s10.2s24.6s
WP Staging Pro
10.3s9.7s20.0s
4
UpdraftPlus
15.5s10.1s25.6s
WP Staging Pro
10.2s10.5s20.8s
VPS Standard3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
5
UpdraftPlus
14.5s9.9s24.4s
WP Staging Pro
10.0s10.0s20.1s
6
UpdraftPlus
14.7s10.5s25.2s
WP Staging Pro
10.3s10.4s20.7s
7Median
UpdraftPlus
14.2s10.4s24.6s
WP Staging Pro
10.4s10.1s20.5s

Downloads

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

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