WordPress Speed improvment

  • rwslippey

    (@rwslippey)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I have several WordPress websites I’m hosting on a VPS. All are small sites without a lot of traffic, but I plan on increasing the work put into 1 of them and obviously, hoping to get more traffic as a result.

    A little background.

    My primary concern was my photography website which was taking forever to load on Bluehost shared hosting. (I know bluehost isn’t the best but I took ww.wp.xz.cn’s advice and found out too late) After trying everything to get this site to load faster, I contacted BH and they suggested a cloud hosting account. I saw much improvement but still a little sluggish.

    Fast forward, I decided to go with a VPS (hoping for better performance and some more features) Performance was a little slower than the cloud but much better than shared hosting.

    So finally I’m looking at all of these sites and the common denominator is the TTFB. In many cases it is over 1000ms and sometimes much larger. Is this a server problem or is there something in WordPress I’m missing.

    If it helps my themes are modified version of WordPress default themes (twentysixteen, ect)

    Anything I can do?

    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    9 years, 8 months ago

    To attack TTFB on your own server (1) check the tuning for your web server, (2) and for mysql/maria, then (3) use autoptimize and wp super cache to create a tightly cached environment while (4) you set up a server-level caching environment with reddis or varnish.

    Thread Starter rwslippey

    (@rwslippey)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the reply (of all the forums I visit, I’m always shocked at how quick the replies are here!)

    I’ll look into tuning the VPS server as well as mysql.
    I installed autooptimize but didn’t see much of a change at all and dumped it. Will look into it again.
    I use w3 total cache now but will check out wp super cache as an alternative.
    Varnish is on my list of things to do.

    Thanks for the tips on a direction to go. Will post here how it turns out.

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