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Reducig TTFB on wordpress sites

Posted on April 28, 2021

Apache

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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KFSys

April 29, 2021

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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