Hello,
After reading all the guide/tutorial on the forum about performance settings for Newspaper theme I decided to switch to W3 Total Cache.
Indeed i do not understand why WP Super Cache is recommended as it’s clearly inferior. I did a comparison between super cache / and w3 total cache with GTMetrix + Google Speed Insight and Pingdom. The clear winner is W3 Total Cache. Some theme like : http://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/243-speed-up-the-hueman-theme-how-to-setup-w3-total-cache-plugin offers clear Guide for W3 Total Cache for example.
One comment i have is do not use a CDN like cloudflare ! This is seriously slowing down your sites. I was struggling to get fast TTFB and as soon as i delete cloudflare my full loading time went to 2.2 seconds compared to 8 seconds before average.
Cloudflare is good if your host is really bad but in this case you better change it…
About my question, seems i installed w3 total cache i am having an issue with mobile menu of my site anonymster.com, when you open the menu on mobile and click on “review” the page doesnt load. Would you have an idea how to fix it ?
Thx
Generally the reason most savvy WP developers recommend WP Super Cache is that’s it’s made by the same folks who make WordPress and used on some of the largest websites like TIME.com, etc.
So, while there are other choices (we don’t use a caching plugin, since we have dedicated server, and prefer using optimized pages, with PHP 5.6 with MariaDB and opcache. And now moving to PHP7 + http/2.
So, it makes sense for TagDiv to recommend the same caching solution actually used by WordPress for their own sites, million dollar clients, etc. as it will *always* work with any proper WP setup, while other plugins don’t stay up to date, may not work, get abandoned, etc.
It’s your site, so you can do whatever you wish — however, it’s impossible for a theme dev to provide support for 10 different cache plugins, where caching has nothing directly to do with the theme itself. So, TagDiv use it for their own sites/demos, as does WordPress.
Just a comment as to the why (( I don’t work here …. ))
