I ran that test on a site I am "re"developing a back-end and revised responsive front end.
It did on the YSlow part find the 404 on the font directory (that I neglected to put on that server--OOPS!)
However, the page loaded in 1.52 sec before I fixed that 404 error(s) and 1.02 sec after (on GTmetrix's test for the record that site is on a small development VPS -- not busy at all now) -- and the fucking thing said that the site was slow -- WTF! Anyway, I haven't cleaned up the CSS not minimized it yet. Most of the content is on a CDN hotlinked I do not control so gzip compression would not matter.
That is the thing -- Wordpress is slow code to start with and using a shared server will always be shared resources.
Code:
barry@paragon-DS-7:~/$ curl 'http://www.vintagepornbay.com/' >re
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 274k 0 274k 0 0 67602 0 --:--:-- 0:00:04 --:--:-- 69067
barry@paragon-DS-7:~/$ curl 'https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.vintagepornbay.com/xVkH9ron' >re
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 264k 100 264k 0 0 216k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 216
That is the HTML ONLY BTW.
Your server's response time is slow. maybe 2 or 3 seconds slow possibly the MySQL to load (populate) the wordpress content. I might try getting rid of the necessary plugins and see if that is part of the stall first.
"city": "Vancouver",
"region": "British Columbia",
"country": "CA",
"loc": "49.2866,-123.1158",
"org": "AS36483 Gossamer Threads Inc.",
you are at
"region": "Arizona",
"country": "US",
"loc": "33.6119,-111.8906",
"org": "AS26496 GoDaddy.com, LLC",
I am near Detroit -- much further away -- but on the same continent. <100ms
Well ... <5 sec is D maybe <3 sec B <2 sec A