Duplicator Pro vs WP Staging Pro Backup Speed Battle

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Duplicator ProPROvsWP Staging ProPRO

Duplicator Pro v4.5.24WP Staging Pro v6.7.0
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Speed (different scopes)
WP Staging Pro
14.3svs27.6s

Not comparable — plugins back up different data

Storage (different scopes)
Duplicator Pro
94 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

Duplicator Pro
DBPluginsThemesUploadswp-configWP Core

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

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

Duplicator Pro
Backup
18.5s
Restore
9.0s
WP Staging Pro
Backup
8.5s
Restore
5.7s

Per-Profile Median Times

Median backup + restore time broken down by hosting profile.

Managed WordPress
Duplicator ProTotal: 28.4s
Backup
18.5s
Restore
9.8s
WP Staging ProTotal: 14.4s
Backup
8.7s
Restore
5.7s
VPS Standard
Duplicator ProTotal: 28.2s
Backup
18.5s
Restore
9.7s
WP Staging ProTotal: 14.4s
Backup
8.5s
Restore
5.8s

Backup Size & Efficiency

Duplicator Pro
Data backed up264.0 MB
Archive size94.0 MBZIP
Compression2.8:1
Throughput14.3 MB/s
Compression methodDEFLATE Extra
WP Staging Pro
Data backed up184.0 MB
Archive size145.0 MBWPSTG
Compression1.3:1
Throughput21.2 MB/s
Compression methodN/A (uncompressed format)

Backup Inventory

CategoryDuplicator ProWP Staging ProDiff
FilesSizeFilesSizeFiles
Database1578.4 KB00 B-1
Plugins10,408126.5 MB00 B-10,408
Themes39013.6 MB00 B-390
Uploads26118.2 MB5144.7 MB-256
WP Core2,78257.4 MB00 B-2,782
wp-config00 B00 B=
Other68216.7 MB00 B-682
Total14,524233.0 MB5144.7 MB-14,519

Phase Breakdown

Iteration 2 (median)

Duplicator Pro
SCAN
17.2s
WP Staging Pro
SCAN
5.0s
VERIFY
0.1s
ARCHIVE
0.0s
DB_EXPORT
0.9s

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
Duplicator Pro
18.5s9.0s27.5s
WP Staging Pro
8.7s5.7s14.5s
3
Duplicator Pro
18.5s9.9s28.4s
WP Staging Pro
8.7s5.7s14.4s
4Median
Duplicator Pro
18.6s9.8s28.4s
WP Staging Pro
8.5s5.8s14.3s
VPS Standard3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
5
Duplicator Pro
18.5s9.0s27.6s
WP Staging Pro
8.5s5.8s14.3s
6Median
Duplicator Pro
18.5s9.7s28.2s
WP Staging Pro
8.6s5.8s14.4s
7
Duplicator Pro
18.4s10.1s28.5s
WP Staging Pro
8.5s6.0s14.5s

Downloads

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

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