How to reduce first byte time or first load time

cdn, joomla, load, performance, web

Solution

I had about 0.8/1s ttfb with shared hosting. Moved to VPS changed service from apache to nginx and PHP-FCGI

Still was not enought. TTFB was 250/400 Searched the web for 3 days. Without any result, in lowering ttfb.

Till i found this: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=567

OpCache Help me to reduce ttfb to 0.12/0.2 ms for my joomla site.

Problem

I have developed a joomla 3.2 site. I have tested it with webpagetest.org and i got following results ``` First Byte Time-F Keep-alive Enabled-A Compress Transfer-A Compress Images-A Progressive JPEGs-F Cache static content-A Effective use of CDN-yes ``` link for the result-http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140205_RX_DE5/1/details/ www.webpagetest.org/result/140205_RX_DE5/ I have enabled cdn on my site.Now, I want to reduce my site's first byte time as i'm getting F in First byte time. how can i improve my site's performance?? And, how can i convert images to progressive images as i also got F in progressive JPEGs?? Here's link to my site-http://www.guru99.com Please help me to improve site performance.

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