Title: First Byte Time
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# First Byte Time

 *  [anant18sharma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anant18sharma/)
 * (@anant18sharma)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-byte-time-1/)
 * Hello all,
 * My website has a very slow time to **first byte** of around 8.5s.
    **First Byte
   Time** I really need to reduce this and have done everything that my limited 
   understanding will allow. Indeed it was a plugin that was causing the problem.
   But I wasn’t expecting it to be the **w3tc plugin!**
 * Am I using this plugin incorrectly? Should I uninstall this plugin and setup 
   a different caching plugin?
 * My page gets much lower scores on yslow and google site analyser without the 
   plugin as active, but the site is so much faster.
 * Any help would be hugely appreciated!
 * DopeShop
 * [http://www.dopeshop.in/](http://www.dopeshop.in/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-byte-time-1/)
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