Follow These 5 Tips to Improve Your Magento TTFB

Do you know what term is used to define the first response that the browser loads?  Even as small as 1 byte that the browser loads is known as “time to first bye”(TTFB).

Do you think the anxious Humans who are always in a jiffy, going to visit the site that takes more loading time? The straightforward answer to this question is a No.

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So the search engine developers and website creators are focusing much on the loading speed. The false belief that has vaguely been spreading is, “Your page ranking depends on TTFB or loading speed”.

But thanks to John Mueller who clearly stated that:

AFAIK we currently don't use TTFB for anything in search/ranking. It can be a good proxy for user-facing speed, but like other metrics, don't blindly focus on it.

— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) November 30, 2017

Even though TTFB is much exaggerated for SEO rankings but one should completely focus on giving the best store performance and user experience. 

If you own a Magento store and want to improve your TTPF, follow these easy steps:

Remove bottlenecks:

You will be knocked out and penalized by Google if your loading speed is more than 600 ms. A website with lower speed or speed less than 200 ms ranks higher. 

With the help of Magento 2 profiler, you can break down download into various pages and study which part is taking more time. After analysis, you can remove certain code or features if required to boost up the speed. 

Pick up another suitable database engine:

MySQL, the default search engine database is slow in comparison to MariaDB Aria or Percona XtraDB search engine. They can handle parallel queries and speeds up the search. 

Select the server based on your traffic:

You never know when your site gets random spikes and event generated traffic.  You should keep a minimum of 20-25% of free CPU and RAM space to handle sudden traffic. Contact a Magento speed service provider to balance the CPU and RAM space.  

Delete the unwanted extensions:

Extra and unwanted extension slows down the loading by using the store resources. You can clean it up and improve performance. 

Some tweaks in the Store:

If you turn off the customer logging, it will reduce the time spent on database queries.  This will be helpful in the situation where you have multiple users logged in. 

These are some of the tips by using which you can really improve upon the Magento’s TTFB. Magento speed optimization should be the ultimate goal.