Please help me reduce TTFB of my website (magento) which is running on VPS Dedicated Hosting with CentOS release 6.6 (Final).
Current Time To First Byte is: 19.427 seconds
Please help me reduce TTFB of my website (magento) which is running on VPS Dedicated Hosting with CentOS release 6.6 (Final).
Current Time To First Byte is: 19.427 seconds
Just caches don't improve performance, they reduce hardware utilization for repeated requests.
While implementing the Will Farrell's other suggestions, you need to identify those parts of Magento code that are slow. For that, you will need to enable Magento Profiler – the built in Magento tool that lets you see what Magento is doing and on what it spends most of the page load time.
here is the details method how to enable and use Magento profiler:
http://tutorialmagento.com/how-to-reduce-time-to-first-byte-ttfb-and-speed-up-magento
The main changes to be made are:
Before: 3.5 to 5.5 seconds (depending on time of day)
After: 1.5 to 2.5 seconds (depending on time of day)
Reference
Few things to get you started:
There are many more micro optimizations. A good goal is to have the page, above the fold, render in <100ms.