: Unexplained long Time To First Byte My wordpress blog is getting a grade F for TTFB on webpagetest.org: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140905_20_PRX/ with a TTFB of over 800ms. I cannot explain

@Cugini213

webpagetest.org tests reflect a user loading a page in a web browser - the results can vary from time to time for many reasons that will be out of your control. Following their tips will help you to improve this, though I would strongly recommend carefully thinking about when and how you load javascripts to reduce TTFB.

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Feed the Bot: PageSpeed - Render-blocking Javascript
Google PageSpeed Insights: Remove Render-blocking Javascripts


Sometimes if your page has a large amount of content it can be beneficial to only include the introduction paragraphs and content in the page itself and then use AJAX to load into a div element the remaining content later on.

While CloudFlare can improve reliability, unless you are on a paid service you may not see a significant performance increase in Europe/U.S. unless you are using a low specification web server, typically the significant performance increases will be seen when testing from China, Brazil, India etc.

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