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By Abhishek Ghosh April 27, 2023 8:52 am Updated on April 27, 2023

How to Decrease the Load Time of SSL (Apache2, WordPress)

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There are a bunch of performance tweaks for the Apache webserver running WordPress. Our regular readers are already aware that Apache MPM Event and PHP-FPM, HSTS, HTTP/2 are almost mandatory these days for improved TTFB.

In this article, our discussion is only limited to the setting of the Apache web server which you can try on a dedicated running WordPress. For testing the settings, choose a test location on webpagetest.org which is geographically closer to your dedicated server’s data center.

 

Suggested Settings Decrease the Load Time of SSL

 

I tend to suggest avoiding things like APCu WordPress Plugins. Although they make the page loading speed faster, the result is inconsistent. Temporarily deactivate such plugins for reliable testing.

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The settings described below can be loaded from the default SSL site configuration file located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/. Please do not add all the settings at once. Rather, try each set of settings, run a configuration test and reload the Apache webserver:

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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

The above will avoid restarting the server and hence you can work on a server with a live site. Below are the suggested settings which you can test.

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SSLHonorCipherOrder on
 
SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 512
SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 512
 
SSLPassPhraseDialog  builtin
SSLSessionCache        "shmcb:/var/run/ssl_scache(5120000)"
SSLSessionCacheTimeout  300
 
SSLUseStapling On
 
SSLStaplingCache "shmcb:/var/run/ssl_stapling(128000)"
SSLStaplingReturnResponderErrors off
 
SSLStaplingStandardCacheTimeout 3600
SSLStaplingErrorCacheTimeout 1200
SSLStaplingResponderTimeout 5

SSL Negotiation can be as fast as 16ms, while 100 to 150 ms is not completely bad. TTFB should be below 300ms. Distance from the user to the data centre, uncached GZIP, and network server congestion can increase TTFB. With the above settings, you should achieve at least the result below:

How to Decrease the Load Time of SSL Apache WordPress

The average story will not change unless you take a whole site caching service, change the web design to minimal and use the best-performing DNS. There will be a tradeoff since most of us have a limitation of budget.

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Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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