Does litespeed work well with a dreamhost dedicated server?

[terrence278]

Hi all, I am a complete beginner with this so any pointers or advice would be much appreciated.

We have a dedicated server through dreamhost, and because our website still fails the google page speed score test (low LCP score) we wanted to look at other ways https://xender.vip/ to improve the speed. So we recently added the litespeed cache plugin and subsequently got setup on the QUIC.cloud. The website still shows all the google page speed scores as before so it doesn't seem to have done anything! Should we be looking to utilise the litespeed web server in this instance to see the full benefit - will this work well with our dreamhost server?

 

[serpent_driver]

With the LiteSpeed web server and cache plugin installed, it doesn't matter what host you use. Mainly because PageSpeed doesn't measure load time, only display time, which is completely different from load time. For display time, it almost doesn't matter how powerful your server is, because display time is all about how quickly the screen, especially the view above the fold, is painted and how quickly the page can be used by the user . How quickly the data can be loaded from the server plays almost no role for PageSpeed. These factors are significantly influenced by the optimization of the sources required for display (JS, CSS, fonts, images, ....). So if you have problems with a bad score, then this is not a problem with your server, but a problem with insufficient optimization of your page. If you have little experience with optimizing a website, then you should use one of the presets in the cache plugin, preferably the recommended preset.

Read more about the difference of Load Time and Display Time:

https://www.cachecrawler.com/Knowledgebase/PageSpeed/PageSpeed-Loading-Time::6568.html