Right now I have shared hosting on my plan with about eight websites that are small with virtually no visits. I have one site that I would like to eventually promote and hope to get a decent traffic. If I go to a VPS will it truly be faster?

The first tier is pretty basic but it's about $9 a month and I'm just wondering

Can anybody give me some idea? The website that I currently have to put on there has a small homepage built in WordPress with no graphics and is loadibg about three and a half seconds now.

One of the reasons that I would like to move is that I have to have PC guard on the shared server