another Render-Blocking Resources question

So I fixed the Render Blocking Scripts and CSS with Autoptimize

PageSpeed Insights now reads 64 (better than 51). So thats good.

Going back to https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/testmysite/

My load time has reduced from 3.9 secs to 2.5 secs so happy days.

But 2.5 is still “slow” by google rating ??

based on a quick gtmetrix test your site’s time to first byte is rather high, so you might want to look into page caching (a plugin such as wp super cache/ keycdn cache enabler or at hoster level or cloudflare page rules)?

Hi OM, thanks for the reply

I am already using page cache with W3 Total Cache.

Once this has been configured (I have every option checked except:
Don’t cache front page
Cache URIs with query string variables
Don’t cache pages for following user roles.

Apart from these, I believe everything to be in place.

Or would you suggest there is something else I could do?

Cheers,
DJ

in that case; TTFB is slow despite W3TC. could be due to cloudflare which by default doesn’t cache HTML and will re-fetch it from your origin server every time, in which case your site could be faster without CF or you could alternatively use cloudflare’s page rules to do page caching there?

Hi OM thanks again for getting back.

So I have Created a Page Rule for fotoscopic.com as per the link you sent
I also created another page rule for https://fotoscopic.com/wp-admin/*

Additionally, I set Browser Cache Expiration to Respect Existing Headers.

I tested it as suggested:

curl -I https://fotoscopic.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:17:11 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d59f166e9cb46828e75069f7f93718fb31569403031; expires=Thu, 24-Sep-20 09:17:11 GMT; path=/; domain=.fotoscopic.com; HttpOnly
Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto,Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:13:14 GMT
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
X-Server-Cache: true
X-Proxy-Cache: HIT
CF-Cache-Status: MISS
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri=”https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct”
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 51bbe7505b50359a-LHR

Then again:
curl -I https://fotoscopic.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:18:28 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d1c03c8eda523bade3d4dca5a866e7adf1569403108; expires=Thu, 24-Sep-20 09:18:28 GMT; path=/; domain=.fotoscopic.com; HttpOnly
Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto,Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:13:14 GMT
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
X-Server-Cache: true
X-Proxy-Cache: HIT
CF-Cache-Status: HIT
Age: 77
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri=”https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct”
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 51bbe936de59dc43-LHR

The above it supposed to improve TTFB I believe.

Could you recommend a good way to test for TTFB? Would that be available on gtmetrix?

Thank you
David.

Could you recommend a good way to test for TTFB? Would that be available on gtmetrix?

indeed GTmetrix, under “waterfall” and “timings” and indeed it is _a lot_ better now with a 133ms TTFB. congrats, you have a fast website now ??

Wow thank you!

Just before I close this, which analytics tool do you recommend I use.

GTMetrix?
PageSpeed Insights?
ThinkWithGoogle?

It would help with the learning curve if I knew which tool to use.

Cheers!

I prefer https://webpagetest.org actually ??

another one! thats not helping! ??

Thanks again ( will add webpagetest to my ever growing suite of analytics!)

Actually I spoke too soon.

Looks like cache level to cache everything for the homepage screws up the order and shape of the images I have there within an Envira gallery.

Turning it off helps fix the page. Keeping it on messes with it.
I have left the setting on now so you can see it.

Have raised a call with Envira and posted a query in the Cloudflare forum here.

Thanks,
David.

Afraid I don’t know enough about CF’s page caching & about Envira Gallery to help you with that ??

No worries you have helped enough! Cheers.