Title: Reduce server response time
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Reduce server response time

 *  [rootroot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rootroot-1/)
 * (@rootroot-1)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reduce-server-response-time-1/)
 * According to the google speed test my server response time is not fast enough
   and needs to be improved.
    This is really frustrating because the server response
   time changes between 0.9 to 2.2 [sec] randomly. I use a shared host, have the
   pinnacle theme, and use cloudflare for CDN. I got this poor result with all kinds
   of WP Super Cache settings (mod_rewrite,PHP to serve cache files and preload).
   If someone can take a look and give me advise I’d really appreciate it.
 * My url is [http://www.samanthaisraeltours.com](http://www.samanthaisraeltours.com)
   
   Thank you very much!

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 *  [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/)
 * (@lorro)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reduce-server-response-time-1/#post-7147374)
 * I tried the ping test from the command prompt and was getting 160ms. My own cheapo
   shared hosting does 23ms. That difference could be a feature of distance. To 
   see the response from where you are, bring up the command prompt and type:
    ping
   [http://www.samanthaisraeltours.com/](http://www.samanthaisraeltours.com/)
 * [http://www.ipneighbour.com/](http://www.ipneighbour.com/)
    is showing 475 other
   domains hosted on the same server. We can’t tell how active those sites are, 
   but it seems a lot of sites. Ask your host if they have a faster server that 
   they can move your account to. Some hosts may reserve their faster servers for
   customers who complain.
 * Server response time is a function of the server hardware, server load and server
   location relative to you. No amount of messing with WordPress will affect that.
   Anyway, that’s my understanding.
 *  Thread Starter [rootroot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rootroot-1/)
 * (@rootroot-1)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reduce-server-response-time-1/#post-7147497)
 * Thank you very muchlorro!
    It’s really helped me to get through and understand
   this issue.
 * I figured out that the “server response time” is different depend on writing 
   with or without “www” on the URL (probably because enter URL that include www
   is redirected to the full domain server)
    Anyway the result you got: “475 other
   domains hosted on the same server” is when you check the the domain: [http://samanthaisraeltours.com/](http://samanthaisraeltours.com/)
   without “www”. But when I checked the full domain: [http://www.samanthaisraeltours.com/](http://www.samanthaisraeltours.com/)
   I got only 34 domaims that hosted on the same server.
 * When I asked my host (Justhost) to move my site to faster server they just advised
   me to upgrade for pro-dedicated IP (not shared) but I think it’s not really worth
   for now.
    Btw I set up the google search console to preferred the domain with“
   www” so my site is now ranked based on less bussy and faster server.
 *  [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/)
 * (@lorro)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reduce-server-response-time-1/#post-7147498)
 * That’s interesting, it looks like your non-www address is being routed through
   some intermediate server and so requests are taking longer.
 * A name server links addresses to IPs, so if you have access to your name server
   entries via cpanel you may be able to route non-www traffic direct to the much
   quicker 104.27.175.156 IP. Your host’s techs may be able to do that for you if
   you explain the problem to them.
 *  Thread Starter [rootroot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rootroot-1/)
 * (@rootroot-1)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reduce-server-response-time-1/#post-7147512)
 * Hi,
 * I spoke with my host’s techs and now it’s seems that non www is being routed 
   through only one IP.
 * So thank you very much.
 * **Can you take a look please at this issue, maybe you’ll figure out what’s going
   on:
 * [some Icons of the “floating share bar” don’t work on the homepage](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-icons-dont-work-on-the-homepage?replies=1)

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