Certainly an Eye-Opener, but a few Advisories Please

  • Resolved steveraven

    (@steveraven)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    Installed Pastpress, and apart from a FOUC for around a second (which has disappeared now), my website is running faster than it ever has!

    However I still feel that I’m missing out on something – quite a lot actually if the GTMetrix scores are to be believed.

    Pingdom – great, down to sub-1 second.

    Pagespeed Insights ok – but Google has always been the last in line for my speed tests.

    WebPageTest – great – although the ttfb scores are on a ‘D’ now.

    GTMetrix is where the bug lies though – page speed scares down by 3-4 seconds.

    If it were’t for my browser picking up these fantastic speeds on incognito mode and whatever, I’d have thrown this plugin out of the window already!

    Ok, over to the advisories then:

    I’ve just plonked Phastpress in, straight on top of WP Rocket – no changes to either plugin – to get my page speed down from 2.3 secs to 1.4 secs.

    The WP Rocket preloader is having a moan via a couple of error advisories, which makes me think that I’m needing to do something with Phastpress.

    Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Plugin Author Albert Peschar

    (@kiboit)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for giving PhastPress a try.

    If you post your website URL, I can have a look and perhaps give you some pointers.

    PhastPress accelerates the perceived load time of the site by asynchronously loading CSS and JavaScript files so the page can be rendered as quickly as possible. It might be that the GTmetrix measured page load time increases, although the time to first paint (ie, the time until you see the page appear) actually decreases. That should be obvious from your own experience. You can also use GTmetrix’s video feature to compare page load with and without PhastPress. (Tip: add ?phast=-phast to your page’s URL to disable PhastPress.)

    By the way, I would recommend using WP Super Cache rather than other caching plug-ins. It’s simpler, and doesn’t have unnecessary features that PhastPress already provides. (See the FAQ.)

    –Albert

    Thread Starter steveraven

    (@steveraven)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Sure, the website in question is www[.]midlandsmaidens-escorts[.]com (NSFW)

    I tried WP Super Cache in a previous incarnation of the website, but WP Rocket is vastly superior – and simpler – in all aspects.

    If there’s anything that needs turning off, or re-configuring, I’d appreciate the help!

    Plugin Author Albert Peschar

    (@kiboit)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Steve,

    Have a look at this GTmetrix comparison report: https://gtmetrix.com/compare/yLk6T9qY/aWxZ5k17

    1. “Fully Loaded Time” is 11.1 s with PhastPress vs 13.9 s without.
    2. More importantly, if you have a look at the Filmstrip, you see that with PhastPress the site is visible at 6 s vs 11 s without.

    So, although those load times are not as great as they could be, it’s working.

    The main issue with your site is TTFB: response time (TTFB) for your site, when bypassing the cache is about 3.5 seconds with PhastPress disabled, and 6.4 seconds with PhastPress enabled. Under normal conditions, a WordPress site should not need more than 0.5 – 1.0 seconds, and PhastPress should not add more than 0.1 – 0.3 seconds to the TTFB.

    That means your server is slow. As such, I would recommend upgrading to faster hosting, although it seems only the search is impacted, as all other pages are loading from the cache.

    Otherwise, everything seems to work pretty well. I wouldn’t worry about the WP Rocket preloading errors (although if they contain any detailed info, feel free to post them)– all pages on your site seem to be loading from the cache.

    –Albert

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