How to Improve First Byte Time

[pmeenan]

Your first byte performance is going to be driven by the server-side logic as well as the webserver and database configurations. It's hard to say where the problem is without more detail.

Usually you will need to either instrument your app or use something like New Relic to identify the slow parts because it could be specific database queries, too many database calls, slow filesystem, slow php integration (using cgi?), a webserver with too few clients or a huge number of other problems.