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How can I improve the TTFB?

Posted on July 7, 2014

Heya!

I’m running Nginx on a 512MB Debian 7 Droplet in Amsterdam. The time-to-first-byte is between 400-500ms for static files/pages and funnily enough for a WordPress installation as well.

I’d like to get that down to 100ms, maybe 200ms. Is that a good goal, or are 500ms already good? How do I get that number down without using Varnish? Can I tweak Nginx some way, or would a hardware upgrade change it?

Cheers, Till

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paresh8205

August 17, 2017

Your solution is awesome and working fine but We are facing an issue with our Magento 2 Application and it gets cached everything.

TTFB for our application is always keep between 1s to 2s. I have checked the Magento application execution time which keeps around 400-600ms to complete the execution of the request.

Please find the details about application.

Magento 2.1.7 Application
Our application is hosted on Google Cloud with load balancer, varnish container for full page cache, Redis container for session storage, RDS (mysql) and two instances with nginx
SSL integrated site
CDN: Cloud Front for static content (media and assets files)

I am working to resolve the issue since last 2 months but not able to find any such solutions for the same.

Please provide any suggestions for the same.

Thanks. Paresh

info3aef684d36081e051863bb

February 10, 2018

That helped me!

Thanks!!!

arnisjuraga

October 14, 2018

Be ware, that caching will also cache the simplest dynamic content, like:

<?php echo date('Y-m-d H:i');?>

will be displayed as cached content (that exact minute, when the current page was last time cached) and not change until cache expire

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