Reduce server response times (TTFB)

Hi bheem,

Thanks for your message and for trying out PhastPress.

PhastPress does optimizations that take some processing on the server. This slows down the response time. On a fast server, the response time should not be increased by more than 150 ms (0.150 s).

You can reduce the response time (TTFB) by using a caching plugin such as WP Super Cache.

I tested your site studyread.com using this tool that measures the TTFB from many locations around the world and the TTFB of your site is acceptable.

Google uses a threshold of 200 ms. Without caching, this is difficult to achieve on WordPress, especially when you’re also using PhastPress. As long as the TTFB is below 400 ms, I would not worry about it.

Let me know if you have any additional questions. If you like PhastPress, I would really appreciate it if you left a review here.

–Albert

Hi, i have already installed supercache plugin. But still the TTFB goes over the threshold of 200ms.
Any other options to enable in supercache or do you recommend try any other cache plugin?

Also should the autominify options in cloudflare for JS, CSS and HTML be enable.

Please delete the link to our site in your previous reply.

Thanks.

Moderator, could you please remove the segment I tested your site […] is acceptable, as requested by the user, from my previous reply. Thank you.

It seems the PHP installation on your server is slow. Normally, when using WP Super Cache, pages should load in less than 200 ms.

Some possible reasons for slowness include:

• PHP is loaded via CGI instead of FastCGI or mod_php.
• You are using PHP 5. PHP 7 is much faster.
• The server is overloaded.
• The server hardware is ancient.

I suggest that you configure WP Super Cache to use “Expert” mode. This causes it to load files via .htaccess, without hitting PHP, and is thus much faster.

–Albert

It’s a link to a website on the internet, there’s no private information that would warrant us to make modifications to the post here.