Test Result Versus Real World Experience

[jimhill10]

I am very grateful to the help that Web Page Test has been over the past several years. We have done extensive work optimizing our web site primarily because we are a software vendor. In looking at my results I see a certain page load value but when I pull that page up in a clean (cache deleted) browser my experience of first view is much faster than reported. My installation is Joomla 3.x running behind NGINX using that cache method. All content is delivered as static files via NGINX and the content is all pushed through port 443 SSL. Here is a most recent test, this time with NGINX set to GZIP which was our final configuration change. OS is Centos 7 64 bit, PHP 5.6, php-fpm, hosted on a dedicated VPS with no other sites by Hostwinds.

Here is a test result, whereas realistic first view comes in at about 3/4 seconds on most of my browsers. Yes, Joomla can be very fast.

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