I'm running OC 2.3.0.2 with the latest Journal theme installed. No vqmod installed. Site here: alpinmag.ro
Caching is enabled, code is minified, everything looks fine and dandy. Except the time for first byte is over 5 seconds which makes the whole site unusable. Hosting is pretty decent and I've had a conversation with support there as well.
The problem seems to be from Open Cart but I'm not knowledgeable enough to track down the problem. I've read on the forums that some people removed the category count and improved their load times (but were for OC 1.5+), I've found some solution to apply the charset & language directly in .htaccess which I did (seemed to improve the situation a very tiny bit)
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<FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|css|js|php)$">
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
DefaultLanguage ro-RO
</FilesMatch>
But overall the TTFB time is horrible. How can I improve it. Where do I start? What can I turn on and off to see what's causing the bottleneck and where?
Any help is greatly appreciated and I'll work through all solutions suggested and hopefully it will help others down the road as well.
Thank you!
Eddie
P.S. Disabling the Journal caching system seems to improve the TTFB times, but has a huge list of CSS & JS resources to load, so basically there are many more calls to the server.