How to reduce the “Time for the first byte” on my website?

Question

if you go to the homepage, you\'ll see that before the page loads, the browser waits ...

How i could reduce Time for the first byte?

Answer 1

Errors in .htaccess can also greatly increase TTFB.

I had to remove some old lines of code left by Wordfence to resolve my 8-12 second TTFB (now 500ms).