responsive mobile menu not working

i read another support ticket that said the solution was to use W3 Total Cache. which we used to use. but because of the site being very sluggish and crashing at times, with W3 showing no noticeable increase in speed at all, we decided to use wordfence plug in. which might i add is very good for detecting the main problem for site slow speed. which is not the theme itself, but DDOS attacks.

we were able to block china where attacks were coming from and speed picked up 100x faster than before. then i decided to use their cache engine, which even made it faster.

however now based on your response to the responsive menu issues, we have removed the caching by wordfence and activated W3 Total Cache. but still there is a problem if the responsive menu showing. please see http://www.naija.fm

also sliding menu not working. just provides link – http://www.naija.fm/#

really need the help please. we are losing tons of traffic due to users only limited to few pages.

Robert

also
i noticed in documentation this statement:
make sure that you have APC installed or another ‘op cache’ for php. This will reduce your server response time.We have receive some reports that the accelerator has some problems in some specific configurations with our theme and Nginx.

does it mean we should not use Nginx?

– also, i meant that the SWIPE MENU ON MOBILES or the standard menu on responsive (mobile) is not working.
thanks

(9pm PDT/PST 7/15)
You have a lot of elements not loading properly, or only partially loading, when I just looked at your site. Likely a number of CSS, java, etc. is not loading at all due to the site being terribly slow right now, and timing out left and right. Header is a mess in IE7/Win64 on a 75mb FIOS connection, reloading page doesn’t make it better, left sticky social disappears then comes back, some social icons floating off right side in circles, etc. Likely first step is getting pages to fully load at all.

Okay. let me try that. thanks Lucian and Christopher.

do you also suggest wp-optimize plugin as in your other article for page load speed, once this issue is corrected? i tried following your suggestion, but it crashed the database. just got it back up/repaired last night. its possible as Lucian says was caused by the other plugins conflicting. but they all serve a purpose but will see what i can do without. i really want the site to be exciting with additional buddypress features to keep visitors active.

i will update this ticket after removing all the plugins.
thanks again for the quick reply

ok its working now.
i removed all the plugins but the essentials and its working currently with blazing page speed. Now adding them one by one back to see what was conflicting… and i noticed once i added W3 cache that it actually slowed down. is that normal? to be fair as i added gzip plugin it even slowed down more. 🙁

would this be the time to optimize with WP-Optimize? it crashed our database last time and im really shy about using it now.

according to google pagespeed insights, its suggesting we Leverage browser caching
– but according to documentation on theme, u suggested only doing page cache. should i active the browser cache option in W3?

If you’re having trouble optimizing via plugin, I would likely contact your hosting provider and optimize your dbase from phpmyadmin or similar outside of wordpress (e.g., command line, or from server side).

But yes… on a 190MB dbase, WP-Optimize clears out on average about 27.5MB of crap, depending on when you do an optimization.

I think the pagespeed insights reference to browswer caching is having
1) expires headers from the server (or via htaccess on Apache, or config file on nginx), which specify a time to live, such as “cache fonts for one week, don’t reload them every time a page loads” … that is the purpose of “browser caching” — same with CSS, images like a logo, javascript, etc. — my settings are in the sticky for pagespeed.

2) remember to have gzip/deflate running on server side, you don’t need plugin for that as the server can compress everything on request

I’m not currently using W3 cache, and frankly I’d leave that off until you get everything else sorted as otherwise you end up caching incomplete pages from the other errors or overloads. Once EVERYTHING else is solid, THEN you would turn on the cache as the LAST thing in the chain.

Hope that helped a little (been there!). 🙂

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

(correction: “But yes… on a 190MB dbase, WP-Optimize clears out on average about 27.5MB of crap,”) … not correct. Clean up varies on how much needs optimization. That number happened on one site, first optimization after a year of no optimization. Normally it’s more like a 1 or 2% house cleaning.

We have the number of post drafts optimized in our functons.php file to limit number of saves to no more than 3.

makes sense. seemed to slow when i activated W3 cache thanks

will check server side gzip. also will try to use wp-optimize before moving forward

I’d actually recommend you do a full backup via your hosting panel of your dbase, and do a repair/optimize outside of WP, if you can do so – to be safe.

hi guys,

I really want to know the answer to this.

i noticed in documentation this statement:
make sure that you have APC installed or another ‘op cache’ for php. This will reduce your server response time.We have receive some reports that the accelerator has some problems in some specific configurations with our theme and Nginx.

I want to ask my server to enable but afraid something will crush.

can you let us know proper settings?

cheers!