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Nina Marie
Nina Marie

Reputation: 11

First Byte Time scores F

I recently purchased a new theme and installed wordpress on my GoDaddy hosting account for my portfolio. I am still working on it, but as of right now I sometimes get page load speeds of 10-20seconds, and others 2 seconds (usually after the page has been cached). I have done all that I believe I can (without breaking the site) to optimize my performance speed (reducing image sizing, using a free CDN, using W3 Total Cache, etc).

It seems that my main issue is this 'TTFB' wait time I get whenever I go to a new page that hasn't been cached yet. How I can fix this? Is it the theme's fault? Do I NEED to switch hosting providers? I really don't want to go through the hassle of doing that and paying So much more just to have less than optimal results. I am new to this.

My testing site: http://test.ninamariephotography.com/

See my Web Page Results here: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/161111_9W_WF0/

Thank you in advance to anyone for your help:)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 157

Answers (1)

AJcodez
AJcodez

Reputation: 34236

Time To First Byte should depend on geography. I don't think that's your problem. I reran your test and got a B.

I think the issue is your hosting is a tiny shared instance, and you're serving static files. Here are some ideas to speed things up.

  • Serve images using an image-serving service. Check out imgix which is $3/m. It could help in unexpected ways serving images off an external domain depending on HTTP protocol version and browser version, and how connections are shared.

  • Try lossy compression. You lose some image detail, but you also lose some file size. Check out compressor.io for an easy tool.

  • Concatenate and minify scripts. You have a number of little javascript files that load individually. Consider joining them together and minifying. I don't know the tool chain for Wordpress, perhaps there's a setting?

If none of that helps, you should experiment with different a hosting choice.

Upvotes: 1

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