My wordpress site is set up with shared hosting by [DreamHost]) and I have a CDN set up with bunny.net. I’ve fairly new to WordPress and web dev, but for the past couple of months I’ve tried various ways to improve my site’s performance including:
* I’m using the Astra pro theme. All plugins are set with auto updates.
* Limit plugins- I only have 10 plugins installed. All of which are vetted with at least over 100K downloads with weekly/monthly updates.
* Lightspeed Cache- (I use bunny.net for my CDN) and minify all CSS, HTML, JS and lazy load images. I followed **@WPressDoctor** YouTube tutorial on setting up the plugin. and bunny CDN is indeed working.
* My site’s homepage only has 2 blocks for displaying posts using the Spectra plugin.
* I’m not running any custom JS or PHP that could slow the site down, I only use plugins and a few custom code snippets for styling certain elements with CSS.
Is my site’s **time to first byte** slow because of DreamHost? Is there something else that could be causing my site’s server response time to be so slow? I ran GTMetrix and it said my response time was 2.59 seconds with render blocking resources being 1.37 seconds.
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