What is your googlespeed value?

Hello,
This theme has a nice design.
But my main purpose of my purchase was googlespeed value is too high.Demo values ​​97 or 100.

However, after having setup after purchase my speed was 65 my values​​.
A topic in the forum, but I have said that hosting related problems. But I’m worth googlespeed with my previous theme was 85.
Anyone following link from google speed test and here you can write your own site? Wonder if we’re having trouble hosting sourced Does what is the problem?

Please test and write forum
http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Just as an fyi, for an example our magazine site under redevelopment for Jan 1 relaunch; here is a test article page (my article), which has a Google Page Speed of 96; with no caching plugins or anything beyond the web server properly configured, images properly compressed, and not using any “bad behavior” WP plugins that adversely impact the DB calls or phone out to other systems needlessly.

http://ga-ga.com/1204/beginning-adventure-space-time-reveals-roots-doctor/

We have not yet implemented tagdiv’s cache beta, nor using W3cache, or have it connected to our CDN (yet). So, “96” is pretty awesome.

See GTMetrix speed/performance check:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/ga-ga.com/y8YUj6GI

Be aware YSLOW penalizes heavily for not using a CDN — so anybody looking for high YSLOW scores needs to use something like W3Cache or similar.

For those who expect the THEME to manage your page speed, you must remember you need to have both your hosting properly setup for caching, headers, and other elements, *and* you must have your domain setup properly.

For example we add this to our .htaccess file in addition to having proper expire headers and caching setup on the server:

AddType text/javascript .js

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ExpiresActive On

# Favicon (cannot be renamed)
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon              "access plus 1 week"

# Media: images, video, audio
  ExpiresByType audio/ogg                 "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/gif                 "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg                "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/png                 "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType video/mp4                 "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType video/ogg                 "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType video/webm                "access plus 1 month"

# CSS and JavaScript
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript    "access plus 1 week"
  ExpiresByType text/css                  "access plus 1 week"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript		  "access plus 1 week"

# Webfonts
  ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf    "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff   "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType font/opentype             "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml             "access plus 1 month"

</IfModule>

Additionally, I use the WP-Optimize plugin to regularly optimize my WP dbase. Cutting 800kb out of your dbase once a week, or after a large number of posts/pages, also speeds up your system overhead.

Typically, we post several stories, then do backup of WP dbase for safekeeping, then run WP optimize to clean house of all the temp files, overhead, etc.

Much like SEO, “Page Speed” is a program and not a plugin. It requires research, implementation and support ticket with your hosting provider, or if you have a VPS or full dedicated box, they don’t turn anything on for you by default — you have to tell them what you need to make it go. We had to test our server cache settings as the first time they were too broad, and we dialed that back (you don’t want to have your home page cached for a week, obviously, but images can be cached for a month or year, for example as they don’t change).

Enabling gzip or similar compression on web server is mandatory, and this is good for 20+ points on Page Speed (SERIOUSLY!). What this does is compress the files sent to the web browser which the web browser decompresses on the fly (modern PCs and Macs are mini supercomputers after all); so instantly almost everything sent from the page to the browser is cut by 50-80% — THAT speeds up the page immensely.

THE TAKEAWAY:
1) web server compression MUST be enabled and setup — this is good for 20+ points on Google Page Speed !
2) proper expiration headers must be served for static content like local hosted fonts, favicon, apple icons, images — this also impacts page speed as it tells browsers like Chrome and Google’s caching server not to keep loading content over and over again.
3) images must be properly optimized before upload to your blog/publication — don’t upload a 50kb file if a 25kb file will do —
4) avoid bad behavior plugins such as those which load additional style sheets not needed, or loading too many ad units (10 ad units on a page will slow it down!)
5) consider using a caching plugin like W3C which can fix things like combining CSS, moving JS to footer

TEST, modify, review, TEST, review, adjust.

Obviously Radu, Marius and co need to setup a FAQs/knowledgebase page for all their themes on this topic or folks will keep posting again and again asking why their WP page doesn’t get 99. The theme is part of the picture, not the only item in the picture.

Sharing all of this as this topic has been the #1 thing I’ve been working on with our other sites, including our main business site which I have up to 99 PageSpeed and 96 YSLOW, using a CDN on top of our own dedicated server, but NOT using WordPress. It’s a complex subject, but Radu and co have done a freaky good job in making this theme work with all the other pieces — and I bought about 10 other themes before this one — and they all sucked, as we say here in the states.

Peace and hope all of that helped somebody 🙂

please help me. my english is not sufficient I do not understand much of what you wrote for. 🙂

-server may be low but the rate of the previous theme google speed value of 85?
-in the meantime I can not change my hosting because he is my sponsor
-which plugin should I use newspaper in contact? pls link and list?
-radu; despite this very low visitor count my plugin should I use? speed to be of high value
-I do not know too much HMTL 🙁
-http://ga-ga.com/1204/beginning-adventure-space-time-reveals-roots-doctor/ link broken

*I feel like you have paid in vain. Performance worse than my other themes.
Please Help Radu and Simmons

• This reply was modified 12 years by ugursport080. Reason: edit short

*I feel like you have paid in vain. Performance worse than my other themes.

Works great for me. 🙂

hi Christopher,

Can I just add that code in my .htaccess as is? I have some rules in it right now so could I add your code just obve or below my current rules in the .htaccess file?

Thanks!

Hi, Zeus
you can put the expiration and such at bottom; at least that’s what I do 🙂

I usually have my

Redirect 301s at top

then the
# WORDPRESS block for permalinks

then the expiration stuff.

Chris

Zeus…
I also updated my expiration headers (see the pagespeed thread sticky top of forum) for htaccess to add more time for .js files due to the wordpress comments js file normally expiring in less than one week. I had it set at 2.6 days; Google now wants a week and will generate error on pagespeed insights for that one pesky file!

Great theme + great suggestions + some smart work = My score is 97 🙂
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.styzic.com

Always glad to help 🙂

I’ve been tweaking PageSpeed on a daily basis since we setup our new web server last December (or rather, I started last year on this topic, but then ran into needing new web server in order to run mod_pagespeed). We run a mix of both WordPress and old-school shtml sites, and so it’s been a challenge to optimize some things for both, especially on our main business website where we have 15 years of static content, wordpress ‘blog’ and then new area for content using wordpress, plus ecommerce area, all on one domain. Fun times! 🙂

I’m super happy with Newspaper, as the devs have been one of the *few* WP devs who understand that it’s not good anymore to have 12 js files and 5 css files linked from every page. One theme I looked at the other day “required” a child theme, and had 15+ js/css files, and one loaded from the child theme not the parent theme. Really nice theme, but very badly architected for modern PageSpeed.

So, in case I haven’t said so lately to Radu and co. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Agree, Chris. One thing that I still lack is combine css and js files… Still not found something that won’t break the site 😛

If your score is 97, move on with your life and post great content 😉

Saying thanks costs nothing but will obviously make you feel good for your help. So Thanks!!

You’re welcome for whatever small help I’ve provided 🙂

Just that I’m getting optimize css delivery for the css files even if they’re at bottom!

FYI…
the only way to get a “perfect” score with PageSpeed Insights is to custom build a lean layout with few photos and css custom loading in steps for a) above the fold, b) after load; this is very complex and not suitable for sites with complex if/then/else customization front ends or page builder apps due to all the bloated code necessary for serving different masters. Any site which loads most of the CSS and related styles to get the page to render properly will end up getting an optimization warning, because the page is not custom built to render above the fold before the lower content. If you can hit 90+ on your desktop score and 85+ on mobile, you can live a happy life and not stress over it.

@Christopher Hello, how did you manage to add the blue line above main menu at ga-ga.com

Yes, we switched Ga-ga.com to Newsmag … and still playing with it in my “spare time” … I have not fully optimized the new theme/site combo, so the old scores and such are not yet “up to speed” as it were.

For the site, we found that it worked a little better to have more of a “magazine” style layout (borders) than the newspaper layout, partly because we have some long form book serials/fiction, and .. well, anyway, YES… Ga-Ga.com is now running on NEWSMAG from the savvy folk at TagDiv. So, Newsmag was the right choice for this particular site, hence the switcheroo.

I have not yet
1) optimized the gravatar local caching
2) optimized fonts
3) minified the main CSS file manually
4) finished the home page; and menus.
5) fixed the logos, as I’m playing with changing logo design since it’s not technically a “done” website; the content there now is “mostly” stuff we’re rescuing from some older sites which are being retired and we’re keeping the good stuff for the new site, which will launch Jan.2015.
6) various other minor tweaks

Work in progress as of 12/12/14. 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Hello,

How do I improve my score?

I’m using WP-cache but my score is between 83/84 on the desktop and only 65 in Mobile: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tudoemtecnologia com% 2F

Thanks.

@Thalisson

Try my updated thread as good reference:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/

I just got a 22/100 and 30/100, lol

Obviously we need to do a lot of work on the site’s speed ASAP