I'm putting the finishing touches on this TYPO3 website before it goes live. I've always ran TYPO3 on Netdip.com, but the whole site was in need of an overhaul.

Speed has always been important to me, as I think it is for everyone. 

I've traditionally used nc_staticfilecache to cache my pages generated by TYPO3 and had them served as static HTML documents. I like the nc_staticfilecache extension. It is simple and well integrated into TYPO3 so that it works well. It's also well maintained, and mature, having been around since 2007.

But now this site is running on TYPO3 version 7.6 and I've based my site off of the Introduction Package which uses the excellent bootstrap_package by Benjamin Kott.

With this setup, TYPO3 is a great starting point, with many possibilities for customization. This is where I started.

About Speed

TYPO3 does seem a lot faster when it's the 7.x branch than it did before on the 6.x branch. 

The TYPO3 website mentions these speed improvements and performance increases. I read somewhere else a more detailed explanation of the speed improvements in TYPO3 7, but I can't find it now. Many new changes were made in order to make TYPO3 go fast.

I may not even use nc_staticfilecache any more because my TYPO3 site is performing very well as it is. It is very well optimized.

Web Page Test Results - Good!

I like using webpagetest.org to get a good idea if my site is doing things right as far as speed and optimizing css, caching, and such. I'm very pleased to see that my site, a modified version of the Official Introduction Package for TYPO3 is now getting "A"s across the board.

This is so pleasing to see. My hosting is really good too. I'm with SSDNodes.

With how things are going, I'm extremely pleased with TYPO3 in many ways, including speed and frontend performance. They've done a really nice job with the Official Introduction Package in making an out of the box TYPO3 experience that works well.

My Current Speed Formula

All I have right now to keep my TYPO3 site optimized is the following:

There's no real tweaking to be done with the Official Introduction Package. And that's why I like it. It's a great, out of the box, solution for getting a TYPO3 site up quick.

I may use nc_staticfilecache in the future, but at this point, TYPO3 is serving up pages quick without it.

So a good formula for an optimized TYPO3 site requires doing very little except starting with the Introduction Package and modifying it so it suits your needs.