Re: Optimizing a server running Wordpress

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: 
> 
> > What issue(s) are you having exactly?
> 
> The thing is that if we load the hommepage via the Google tools testing
> performance, we get a high time of load (7s instead of 2 recommended). We
> try optimizing the page, but it seems another problem is the response tim of
> the server. So a program such as varnish could improve the response time,
> but it implies a good setting with Wordpress and Apache

Step 1: Forget about Varnish. Uninstall it.

Step 2: Install https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

Step 3: Configure it.

Step 4: Remove any JavaScript, ads, trackers, web-fonts, large
images, etc.

You should be good at that point.

-dsr-