Max Taxable
The Wyatt Earp of Anti-Spam
vB4 with ANY hosting actually.I agree with with Max, first byte time is hard to eliminate with shared hosting and VB4.
vB4 with ANY hosting actually.I agree with with Max, first byte time is hard to eliminate with shared hosting and VB4.
Yeah... That article is a bunch of spin and hooey, covering up for the fact that the handshake is always going to be slow using the CF proxy. I proved this with my vB3 which always had good first byte time without CF, and always a F grade with it. It's just the nature of the beast. Just like it is always the nature of the beast with vB4 anyway regardless of mods, hosting, whatever. It just has a bloated DB.Here is an interesting article about it. Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB) | CloudFlare Blog
That's pretty darned good though for a vB4 loading 2MB on people's browsers. Two..... Megabytes.
Nothing is added. Nothing is subtracted.That is because I have a few pics loading on the forum home from the gallery and a few advertisements. In my test results I did it with them eliminated, yours is with them added.
It is a performance hit I am willing to live with as my users love the gallery and the advertisements are paid for by my vendors.
Pretty sure that totally stripped and right out of the box, vB4 is over 400kb.yeah that's nice. 200kb page size would be impossible to achieve without stripping everything off for me. I have banner ads bigger than that.
Yeah what did I say? They always gonna blame you, first. It's what they're trained to do and it is the teleprompter script they follow. Most of what you get calling these hosts are people qualified for flipping burgers at McDonald's and that's about all. Because anyone even slightly knowledgeable about the web knows a BG image isn't going to slow down a ENTIRE server. Even if that image by itself is 1MB.I did some more work today. and got the page size down to 830kb.
WebPagetest Test Result - Dulles : captivereefs.com - 02/09/14 00:07:24
I asked URLjet if they had any ideas for improving time to first byte... first thing they did was mention my background image. It was dialed down to about 120KB at that time. I crunched it some more and have it down to 90KB now...its starting to look pretty blurry though.
They sent me a link with more suggestions. I think I have most of these already. But I'm going to go through them to verify.
Create a simple HTML page with only something like, "Hello, this is a test page" and test that, see what first byte time is.I've been pretty happy with their support since I have been with them (3 years). They pointed out a couple things that weren't quite right that I was able to fix...my additional.css file was taking forever when testing this url: captivreefs.com/forum. Which is sort of strange since its the same page as captivereefs.com. But I realized I was linking to a couple background images on my test site and I also shortened the url to a relative path so it was inside of the forum directory rather than the full url (http://....). That seemed to get it loading faster.
But I don't seem to be making a dent in that time to first byte with all the changes.
I think I can score a few less requests if I work on adding a few of my custom images to the sprite. I may check into implementing that sphinx search mod by digital point...if anyone is searching, that will lessen their impact.
I'd keep testing and bookmarking, try to establish a pattern over several days, different times and alot of tests.So what's the conclusion... server is fine and its on me?