: Is SSL a Major Contributing Factor to Website Speed I have nearly a perfect score on Pingdom Results: https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/tU1lz/https://varmag.com/ If I'm not mistaken, it looks like SSL
I have nearly a perfect score on Pingdom Results: tools.pingdom.com/#!/tU1lz/https://varmag.com/ If I'm not mistaken, it looks like SSL is what's slowing me down? Doing some research, If I'm understanding correctly, the speed of SSL is largely based on the cipher suite? I Googled 'fasted cypher suite' and used the one mostly refereed to around the web, but not sure if I see much of an improvement.
What I've done to improve my score and speed: Moved to a well known low latency host Used Google's mod_pagespeed Switched to http2 Symlinked my theme folder and wp-content uploads folder to a folder outside of my WP install Created a subdomain and separate nginx config for it, removing cookies from static objects
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It's a common myth that SSL (actually, its TLS, SSL is outdated) slows you down, but with modern day CPU's, the computing power it costs extra is negligable. We own a server with a lot of sites on it, and we do not notice a change in load, even though we implement https more and more
If you have Google Analytics, you should check out their 'Site Speed' section, they list which pages are slow, how slow and why they are slow. This will help you significantly more to find what makes your site slow.
For your site SSL doesn't seem to be much of a problem per-sey as the per request SSL handshake is very minimal (only about 1 millisecond). What I would say is firstly you have 15 404 not found links which should be removed as those are adding to your load time.
Other than that your site seems to be working fine based on some very basic testing.
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