TTFB in WordPress Archives

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Tagged: Toolset Blocks, Views, Views plugin, WordPress Archives

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Last updated by Minesh 4 years, 4 months ago.

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September 15, 2020 at 12:55 pm #1777263

arisG

Hello,
We are using the default theme and we have disabled all plugins except Toolset Types, Toolset Views and UltimateMember.

We have made some tests about TTFB and we have noticed some delays in the results.

• We have created a WordPress Archive (test2) with Toolset CPT with only title and Feature image
TTFB = 1.20

• We have created a manually CPT with the default layout
TTFB = 0.664

• We have a WordPress Archive with our layout (Without Custom S/Cs)
TTFB = 1.30

After that, we disable the UltimateMember where it’s not unused on these pages and the results at the same Archives was:

• We have created a WordPress Archive (test2) with Toolset CPT with only title and Feature image
TTFB = 0.653

• We have created a manually CPT with the default layout
TTFB = 0.585

• We have a WordPress Archive with our layout (Without Custom S/Cs)
TTFB = 0.630

As you can see the TTFB has dropped dramatically in Archives that use Toolset and a small drop in the manually added Archive. If we also enable our theme and custom code the TTFB difference is huge. More than 2 sec with UltimateMember disabled.

Could you please check where this delay came from because only appears in Toolset Archives and not to defaults Archives. We can give you access to our staging environment.

Thank you.

September 16, 2020 at 11:59 am #1778609

Minesh

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Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Here are few links that shows how you can improve the TTFB for your site:
=> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28580845/how-can-i-reduce-the-waiting-ttfb-time
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TTFB is mainly considered the server side.

However - Our developers are continuously looking at ways to improve the performance of Toolset, including internal caching for (view/archives/content templates) and there isn't anything we can do about individual sites.

The TTFB can be affected by the server, but a lot of it would be related to the PHP code run by us in producing a page, hence why you can see fairly large differences when disabling plugins.

Considering the TTFB=1.20, I would say this is expected and not too high. If the page took around TTFB=10-15 we would be interested to look at the issue but for now, It should be expected and if you can confirm that Toolset is affecting the TTFB we are happy to investigate the issue further and address the issue.