Hi I am having extremely bad load times for my website.
“In our test, your server responded in 1.5 seconds”
I have built it on a 4CPU 4GB ram droplet.
Its running WordPress and woocommerce and couple of other plugins.
As far as testing it with out any plugins I get a response time of about .4 /.6 seconds.
But I need the other plugins to make the site what it is. Is there any way to improve the sites response time?
I.e server configuration / DB ?
Currently the server is set up with Centos 7 + plesk. I have also tested the site on another server with the same results.
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Hi Plesk uses Nginx for static resources when serving webpages. I have no Idea how Nginx works and I found it a bugger just to configure the Gzip compression settings.
As for Varnish how does it help with caching?
Are you using apache with your server? You could always run nginx as a proxy server to improve delivery speed. Also you might want to look into varnish for your cache.
Those 2 should give you and improvement.
Okay so I found a solution myself and thought I would share it.
I have used New Relic to diagnose response times on my application.
This highlighted that the wp-cron file was using about 600ms I googled this and found that wordpress runs a virtual cron job every time a page loads!
This can be be switched off in the wp-config.php which I did and then scheduled it separately at 15 minute intervals.
Secondly New Relic highlighted to me I was requesting a Trust Pilot feed on every homepage load which greatly varied the response time depending on Trust Pilot. I had forgot to create a cache of this file. I am now going to download the feed separate and call that from a cron job too.
My response time is now down to .8 seconds almost half!. Going to keep monitoring and improving as much as I can.
Hope this helps you all.