VPS Site Speed Test no good

[sysads]

So I have been trying to figure out how to get a good google site speed test score and decided to try out the Contabo VPS SSD 8GB RAM option. Installed webmin, wordpress, setup DNS and installed a wordpress theme. Installed autoptimize plugin.

Tested the site with google site speed test tool and result is terrible.

Mobile: 5
Desktop: 30

So it appears it does not matter how much hardware spec your hosting is, there is something about the wordpress theme that is not playing well with the google site speed test tool.

Anyone with any idea on how to improve this? Thanks

 

[DamoHG]

Having good CPU speed + SSD (or NVMe for even better speeds) does help but it's not the ultimate solution, you still need to optimize.

A good benchmark script to run on your Linux VPS is https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script