I just moved to a new host with a VPS and resources that should be much more than sufficient for my website’s needs.
However, it does seem quite slow, and when I check my test results I see that the time to first byte is almost 2 seconds!
Here’s a link to the test results: [url]http://www.webpagetest.org/result/101203_1MDW/[/url]
It seems like all other factors are not that influential on the speed.
I have already done some optimization, but this problem seems more like a PHP or a server side one.
Does anyone have any idea how to decrease the time the to first byte?
I’m gessing you don’t have smartoptimizer, it would make a huge difference
I tried to install it but if I remember right it created conflicts with some JS on my site. Didn’t you have the same problem?
No, the only problem some of us had was the Css breaking, but it was solved by removing the .htaccess file from the smartoptimizer folder.
[quote name=‘E.Qi.Librium’]No, the only problem some of us had was the Css breaking, but it was solved by removing the .htaccess file from the smartoptimizer folder.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. I’ll try that again then…
Gzip works along side SO also
JOhn
For a VPS it’s really slow:
[url]http://host-tracker.com/check_res_ajx/6117495-0/[/url]
[url]http://host-tracker.com/check_res_ajx/6117567-0/[/url]
What does a tracert tell you? Look at the network path first to ensure that’s not your issue before you try optimizations… If you have high latency, the fastest site in the world is still going to load slowly.
Strongly suggest you use the 'page speed" plugin for firebug. It will break things down to dns lookup, send time, wait time, read time and then dom load time.