Extremely Slow TTFB

  • Hi, currently I’m using Bluehost’s Cloud – Performance plan. The main problem is both my sites have extremely slow TTFB (Time to First Byte). I checked using bytecheck online tool, the TTFB is always more than a second and even around 2 seconds

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    As you can see the slowest part is ‘Wait’. I’ve tried to disable some plugins but no effect on TTFB.

    I also use P3 Plugin Performance Profiler plugin for checking slow plugins.

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    Clearly the plugins are pretty fast and even the site loads below 0.5 second.

    TTFB above 1 second is a really big problem because it can affect SERP. Especially considering most other competitors’ TTFB about 0.5 second or even less. Other people say they can get about 0.5s using WordPress on Bluehost.

    I’ve contacted Bluehost support but they say I have to optimize my site. As they suggest, I’ve run repair and optimize query on database and also run wp-optimizer plugin. But no effects at all.

    Is there any recommendations what should I do?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I use two plugins to help speed up sites, AutOptimize and Comet Cache. You might try some caching plugins in addition to the caching that Bluehost provides at the server level.

    Thread Starter ivanchibi

    (@ivanchibi)

    I’ve tried using W3TC caching plugin but no improvement at all. TTFB is still above 2 seconds. Why do you recommend AutOptimize and Comet Cache? Are they better than W3TC?

    I’m also planning to use free CDN. Bluehost offer easy integration with CloudFlare. Unfortunately CloudFlare only supports SSL in Premium plan, which is $14.99/month and I can’t afford that. Is there any recommendations of free CDN supporting SSL?

    Contacting Bluehost supports is a waste of time because it seems they don’t understand TTFB or they pretend as if they don’t understand it because they know the company is trying to maximize profit by sacrificing quality (by hosting too many websites in the same server).

    Focus on a page cache first and foremost to fix the TTFB issue. If W3TC doesn’t help (it’s a beast), then indeed try alternatives such as Comet Cache or WP Super Cache or KeyCDN Cache Enabler or Hyper Cache.

    Autoptimize (which I’m the developer of) would be the next step, but won’t help with your TTFB as such.

    have a nice weekend,
    frank

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