GTmetrix long Waiting during TTFB

  • Resolved jin4friends

    (@jin4friends)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    I’m trying to ascertain whether the long TTFB for a typical page on my blog is mainly because of poor hosting, or something I can improve drastically on my side alone.

    GTmetrix waterfall for the page (the porridge recipe) looks like this:
    -eight-treasure-porridge/ 200 8.6 KB 2.3s (note: this 2.3s include 1.7s “Waiting” plus 600ms for everything else i.e. blocking, DNS lookup, connecting, sending and receiving)
    — style.css?ver=2.0.1 200 5.9 KB 107.3ms
    — style.min.css?ver=5.7 200 8.8 KB 113.6ms
    —- css?family=Lato%3A300%2C700&ver=2.0.1 200 fonts.googleapis.com 852 B 40.2ms
    —–js?id=UA-47842105-1 200 googletagmanager.com 38.2 KB 182ms
    …….etc.etc.

    I just wonder what the server is doing during that 1.7s of “waiting”? I get this after deactivating all plugins. Is this more likely to be poor shared webhosting, or it’s very much determined by time takes to request files (images, js etc.)? My hosting service asked me to add a cache plugin and I will sure try that, and I will also optimize the images etc. But in your view is this “waiting” time normal for what the page is on a reasonable shared hosting service?
    If I deactivate all plugins, also switch to twenty-twenty default theme, the TTFB is about 1.4 to 1.8 (0.9s to 1.3s of waiting plus 500ms for everything else)
    If I activate all of the plugins and use my current theme (Genesis Sample) then TTFB is around 2.5 (2s of “Waiting” plus 500ms for everything else). Thank you for your suggestions!

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  • Thread Starter jin4friends

    (@jin4friends)

    Further to my last question, not sure if I used the term TTFB correctly. Hopefully it didn’t make the questions confusing.

    Thread Starter jin4friends

    (@jin4friends)

    Update: I installed WP super cache now the loading time has gone down to within 2s and TTFB around 400 to 500ms.

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