Improve your WordPress website’s TTFB

Simply put, Time To First Byte (TTFB) is the time it takes for your browser to receive the first byte of page content from the server. Reducing TTFB plays an important role in ensuring your site is performant and responsive for its users.

You may have seen the Google PageSpeed Insights TTFB audit. This audit can be passed by ensuring TTFB is under 600 ms. Ideally, you’ll be wanting to aim for TTFB to be under 200 ms to give your users the best experience possible. Whilst TTFB isn’t the only factor to consider when optimising a site, if content begins to load for your website’s users quickly they’ll have an improved first experience.