How to reduce first byte time or first load time

performance web joomla load cdn
Tushar Korat picture Tushar Korat · Feb 5, 2014 · Viewed 36k times · Source

I have developed a joomla 3.2 site. I have tested it with webpagetest.org and i got following results

First Byte Time-F
Keep-alive Enabled-A
Compress Transfer-A
Compress Images-A
Progressive JPEGs-F
Cache static content-A
Effective use of CDN-yes

link for the result-http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140205_RX_DE5/1/details/ www.webpagetest.org/result/140205_RX_DE5/

I have enabled cdn on my site.Now, I want to reduce my site's first byte time as i'm getting F in First byte time. how can i improve my site's performance?? And, how can i convert images to progressive images as i also got F in progressive JPEGs??

Here's link to my site-http://www.guru99.com

Please help me to improve site performance.

Answer

Donatas picture Donatas · Apr 25, 2015

I had about 0.8/1s ttfb with shared hosting. Moved to VPS changed service from apache to nginx and PHP-FCGI

Still was not enought. TTFB was 250/400 Searched the web for 3 days. Without any result, in lowering ttfb.

Till i found this: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=567

OpCache Help me to reduce ttfb to 0.12/0.2 ms for my joomla site.

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