Getting ready to Drop C5. Server response times are very slow
Permalink 1 user found helpfulThe best server response time we have achieved is 2.98s - averaging about 3.3s. (With caching on)
When the cache is rebuilding this goes up to 11.87s.
This is running on our own server where other CMS driven sites are responding on average in about 50ms.
We have optimised the MySQL server, upgraded PHP to 5.4.38. Disks and memory are checked.
By removing all blocks from a page we're getting a response time of about 1s which is still slow.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Kind regards,
Jeremy
Environment Info:
# concrete5 Version Core Version - 5.7.3.1 Version Installed - 5.7.3.1 Database Version - 20150109000000 # concrete5 Packages Fruitful (1.1.1), ProBlog (2.1.0), Thumb Gallery (1.0.2). # concrete5 Overrides languages/ja_JP, languages/tr_TR, languages/sl_SI, languages/fr_FR, languages/el_GR, languages/ru_RU, languages/nl_NL, languages/it_IT, languages/de_DE, languages/fi_FI, languages/sv_SE, languages/da_DK # concrete5 Cache Settings Block Cache - On Overrides Cache - On Full Page Caching - On - If blocks on the particular page allow it. Full Page Cache Lifetime - Every 6 hours (default setting). # Server Software Apache

Try setting Full Page Caching to On - In all cases.
There is another option below that for On - In all cases.
That would be for static HTML or page cached. I'm not even sure Apache can achieve that with no pages to serve. :P
The only way you could get anywhere near that is with full page caching on (and working). Then typically on a real site you get 200-600 ms TTFB with a fast server. Without full page caching 600-1200 milliseconds (for 5.6) is usual and at least triple that for 5.7.
500ms makes much more sense:
You have the figures now from my own benchmarking. If 500ms is the only criteria then , in my opinion, getting full page caching (FPC) operating is the only way to get there (and will probably beat it). If it's a ball-park figure and FPC is not an option then 5.6 will get you most of the way but 5.7 will not in it's current form.
can you optmise your images? I'm sure I just saw onethat is 420k plus another that was over 200k.
its a completely different story ttfb = .4 seconds. total page of 4.9 mb loads in under 2.5 seconds.
What blocks, plugins etc do you have in use on the homepage?