To reduce server response times (TTFB)

[SIERRA ODC]

HI,

• We are trying to improve the speed of our web site www.efacility.in
• Currently against ‘Reduce server response times (TTFB)’, the value shown is 5.23s. We contacted hosting server support for this. They suggested to upgrade PHP to 7  and asked to use cloud fare DNS. We upgraded to PHP 7 but not used cloud fare DNS yet.
• We created another page https://www.efacility.in/home-demo/ and for this the TTFB value is 5.05s
• Please suggest is this issue with hosting server or whether we need to reduce the requests (like banners/ images) in our page

Thanks

[Punit Sethi]

The issue isn't related to reducing banners, images, etc. It could be one of these server-side issues:

- infrastructure / hosting provider issue

- some php code causing slowness

- one or more wordpress plugins causing slowness

[Frank]

Switch on static page caching. Despite of that the processing time for creating the HTML is way to long.

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/191202_4B_4e01395c3709207b4c6b0c44caf2c520/1/details/

[Punit Sethi]

If you are certain the page is coming from a static cache, this should be hosting issue. Can you verify static cache is serving the page?