Hi,
1: I’m having a performance problem with my website/template. My site is actually without any cache system, because it doesn’t increase the performance. Yeah, it’s very strange. I’ve tested the site with/without ads (Google Ads) and with/without WP Super Cache ( I used the same settings that you raccommend in your guide here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/ ).
These are the results of the tests with GTmetrix:
– WP Super Cache Disabled: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/gamesquare.it/68XvbBvI
– WP Super Cache Enabled: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/gamesquare.it/4w0X9Lh4
I’ve also tested the website with Google PageSpeed Load, it gave a vote of 72(min)-78(max) in Mobile View and 82(min)-85(max) in PC view.
The caching system gives one more problem to me, it doesn’t work properly with the Mobile Theme plugin and sometimes the cache shows the normal responsive theme instead of the mobile version. That’s why i’m not using it right now.
2: Sometimes when you open my website with Google Chrome (this isn’t a problem of my browser, because this is also happened to all my friends and only using Chrome) you will see this: https://i.gyazo.com/ac00cc46f780f576aca546ab8210f266.jpg
It seems to be caused by a “fail to load” of every CSS/JS files of the template (original and custom).
I don’t know if this is a problem located only on my website or of the template. Have you any idea?
Thank you in advance
You should optimize your site a bit for things from the report like removing query strings, compressing javascript and main CSS, where possible; consider searching web on how to optimize some of the stuff you’re loading from external sites like DISQUS — e.g., why is the disqus code loading on your home page?
It’s a process.
Make sure you have enough memory allocated to WordPress, and make sure you increase the limits for php processes time-outs, and consider reducing the number of external elements on posts which sloooow down the site. You can’t control the stuff loading from elsewhere and these do impact your score; so only way to increase score when using them, is either not use them, or find ways to optimize how they load — but not part of theme.
I do have a lengthy post in the docs > tutorials > best of forums on some speed up tricks I use; and many others here have posted similar.
To stay sane:
1) try optimizing your site with disqus off, ads off, and not using external elements like jetpack, or external things like smush-it, etc.
2) optimize based on a typical post page, not home page as they will never get highest score due to all the modules, queries, and images
Good luck!
