Reduce TTFB?

[seoman10]

I'm clocking up nearly 1 second on time to first byte on a Joomla 2.5 site.

It is on shared hosting so don't think there's much option for improvement from the hardware or core configuration angle.

There isn't much in the way of plug-ins and it is using SSD, the problem seems to be with the CMS itself.

Any ideas how I could produce the TTFB?

Thanks

[ThomasHarvey]

Have you thought about using a CDN such as cloudflare?

[seoman10]

As a last resort, yes.  But I would sooner fix the problem from the ground up.

Thanks

[ThomasHarvey]

Why would a content delivery network be a last resort? Cloudflare is something you can setup within under half an hour.

I would look at your host, as a "shared server" isn't exactly top tier hosting and Joomla is quite a heavy application.

[Chris_Hickman]

Hello, there are a few options you can consider. First, you can consider getting a dedicated or semi-dedicated server so that you are not sharing resources with dozens of other websites. Second, as already mentioned a CDN such as CloudFlare is highly recommended.

Also, you can read some insight from CloudFlare about TTFB in that it is not entirely an important metric on it's own. You can enable gzip compression which will make your site load faster overall, but this may increase your TTFB.

Depending on your Joomla theme, there may be caching solutions available which can greatly benefit the load times. I think you might be using Rocket Theme so check out RokBooster extension.

Your site has 11 external JavaScripts. You should look into minifying and combining them to 1 file if possible.

I hope these recommendations help. Good luck speeding up your site.

[lcallander]

When researching TTFB slowness for WORDPRESS I always start here:

https://varvy.com/pagespeed/ttfb.html

It's a great illustration on things you can control (beyond server) and I use it as a checklist ... I always seem to forget something simple.... like an edit in .htaccess.