Reducig TTFB on wordpress sites

Hi @tmichaelcrowe,

In the past when I’ve had to deal with improving TTFB, I’ve found that it’s a mix of looking both into the website and the server itself.

Let’s start with the website itself

• You’ll need to make sure the size of your pages are not too big by uploading only optimized images.
• You’ll need to enable GZIP compression. If using Apache, this can be done directly in your .htaccess file.
• Add some sort of caching. Using WordPress actually helps as there are multiple plugins which can help you deal with that
• Make sure you are not doing too many requests per page

Server

• Install some server-side caching. I would recommend using Opcache. It’s a good option
• Make sure you are using the latest PHP version, it can help a lot
• While using the latest PHP version, install PHP-FPM and use it as well. It speeds the time of the requests a lot if configured properly.

I hope this would be of some help!

Regards, KFsys