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Hello,
I am a rookie making my own website on wordpress. I am trying to improve its Google PageSpeed Insights metrics. Is the poor TTFB a server issue? I currently use Bluehost, and I have read elsewhere that Bluehost is notoriously slow… not what I was expecting initially. Would that then affecting LCP and FCP? Recommendations on what to do to resolve these problems? Thank you in advance.
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Yes, TTFB is basically, speed of the server. And, yes, Bluehost is not very good hosting in every respect. I have a client that has Bluehost account, and every time I need to do any work on server side, I am amazed how bad Bluehost is: slow, lacks basic stuff like backups, and it tries to upsell stuff on every page.
I managed to bring down TTFB for his website to about 0.9 seconds, but that was not easy. It depends on the website, and it is especially slow with use if WooCommerce. Cache plugins help, but there are many cache issues specific to BlueHost.
Also, slow server response translates in slow time for other perfromance parameters, because server will be slow to server static resources too.
Avoid any host owned by EIG (list here: .
TTFB is mostly made up of the time it takes the server to generate and serve a WordPress page to a user. This also includes the latency from the server to the user. Getting a faster server or moving the server closer to the target market can help with both of these. Page caching can also help as pages can be served instantly from the server rather than being created on each visit.
The TTFB you have is actually really good (only .1s away from the green metric). You will still get an SEO boost from being in yellow so I wouldn’t worry too much about getting that last .1s in terms of SEO