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Old 01 May 2014, 10:35
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vBulletin 4.2.x time to first byte 1 second

Hello, my vBulletin 4.2.x (default theme) time to first byte according to http://www.webpagetest.org/ is 1 second. I want to ask what is the way to reduce it to like 300ms?
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Old 01 May 2014, 22:05
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Is the link in the signature, your site?

Need to know the site so I can run the test and give you a analysis.

Usually when I see FBT a problem it is a fat site, loading more than 1.5 MB on browsers, with lots of un-optimized images, and so on. There is no one "THE" way to fix that... No magic bullet. You need to optimize your site, is my educated guess.

But until I can see test results I'm not much help beyond that.

EDIT: If the site in your sig is the problem site, the first thing you need to do is get rid of the custom font files you are loading on browsers. It is about 30% of your total pageload and really does nothing for you, since most browsers ignore the custom fonts anyway.

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Old 01 May 2014, 22:30
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Dont think that is his site Max
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Old 02 May 2014, 02:21
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Dont think that is his site Max
It's surely not the vB 4.2.2 he is talking about, but might be his site as well.
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Old 02 May 2014, 02:36
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It might be his but not the one he is talking about as its not even vb
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Load Time First Byte Start Render
First View ** 14.516s ** 4.178s ** 4.506s
Repeat View ** 1.617s ** 0.876s ** 1.055s

Edit: Re-run:
First View ** 3.082s ** 1.042s ** 1.491s
Repeat View ** 0.206s ** 0.506s ** 0.295s
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Old 02 May 2014, 04:21
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Originally Posted by AusPhotography View Post
You have some work to do on that, fortunately none of it difficult.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140502_G7_3YH/
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Old 02 May 2014, 04:22
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It might be his but not the one he is talking about as its not even vb
Right.... That's what I was saying. Site in sig appears to be a WP.
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Old 05 May 2014, 10:42
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first thing you need to do is get rid of the custom font files you are loading on browsers. It is about 30% of your total pageload and really does nothing for you, since most browsers ignore the custom fonts anyway.
Thx, i fixed this. Thanks to you next visitors will save their time waiting on googleapis.

I seen that my vbulletin site time to first byte is 370 miliseconds (too big ) even when im loading plain php file with echo "someshorttext";

any idea please how to improve? I got mod_deflate, apache, php... - root access to server
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Old 05 May 2014, 15:18
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Originally Posted by postcd View Post
Thx, i fixed this. Thanks to you next visitors will save their time waiting on googleapis.

I seen that my vbulletin site time to first byte is 370 miliseconds (too big ) even when im loading plain php file with echo "someshorttext";

any idea please how to improve? I got mod_deflate, apache, php... - root access to server
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The target first byte time is 282 ms so on the test you ran you're not far off. This will vary depending on several factors including load from other sites on this shared server. As you can see on this test just ran, you're grading well on first byte time for that test occasion..

WebPageTestResult

On these tests today, it appears there is a redirect you need to look into getting rid of. Call #1 is the forum, call #2 is the forum with a trailing slash. It is taking time to resolve this unneeded redirect and that is affecting your first byte time and the start of rendering.

On this page are all of the images you are loading. Use the third image you see here instead of the one you have now, to save 66kb on page load.

You are getting a failing grade for "Leverage browser Cache of static assets" and that is a easy fix, just install the following code into your .htaccess file:
Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

After you have done all of the above, let's then see how the tests go.

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Old 05 May 2014, 17:24
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Notice in the edited post above, two different results for first byte time. This is likely due to the variability of load on the shared host. But you really want to do the tasks listed above, for overall improvement of your speed and first paint and domContent loaded speed. This will also improve the "visually complete" time.
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Originally Posted by Max Taxable View Post
Notice in the edited post above, two different results for first byte time. This is likely due to the variability of load on the shared host. But you really want to do the tasks listed above, for overall improvement of your speed and first paint and domContent loaded speed. This will also improve the "visually complete" time.
Can you look at my site? My First Byte time is .85s. I am guessing it may be because I'm running DBSEO but am not sure.
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Old 17 Dec 2016, 21:15
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Can you look at my site? My First Byte time is .85s. I am guessing it may be because I'm running DBSEO but am not sure.
Easy way to figure out: disable all of your plugins one by one and note the first byte time every time you disable a plugin.
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Old 23 Dec 2016, 02:32
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Hello, my vBulletin 4.2.x (default theme) time to first byte is 1 second. I want to ask what is the way to reduce it to like 300ms?
There are somethings can reduce page loading time for your site
Optimize your site
Finding a better hosting
minify your css/javascript

For those, choosing a fast hosting server will help you a big improvement on performance and loading speed.
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