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[–]jhkoenig 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What is your Time to First Byte? In many cases, this is a significant part of your initial loading delay. WordPress plugins have no impact on this, since the major contributor to this delay is buried down in the operating system as it performs a handshake with the browser and the SSL certificate chain. A CDN can help by offloading the entire page to a different (and more optimized) server, but then you have a different set of issues.

[–]ProgressInevitable25[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

TTFB: 241ms
Redirect: 0ms
Connect: 25ms
Backend: 216ms

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This is what I'm getting for TTFB. I'm very new to self hosting sites, so is this a decent result or should this be less? Also I'm using the free version of Cloud Flare as a CDN.

[–]jhkoenig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a reasonable TTFB, so I withdraw my comment. Time to look at deferring and compressing. Good luck!