I’m trying to improve the TTFB on multiple sites that I host on DigitalOcean. They’re all Wordpress. I use Serverpilot to maintain the servers. I run Ubuntu on the servers, all of them updated to 20.04.
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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
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