Minify CSS and elimate render-blocking Resources?

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https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenerdystudent.com

How can I improve my page speed on my mobile site? By deferring CSS and JS, and minifying CSS.

Desktop site is fine.

I am on Version 9.5.

Thanks!

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Hi,

Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized.

Notice that is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services are not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit our requirements.

Unfortunately, our theme does not have such an option to minify the style.css file and we cannot recommend any plugins with this functionality because is not tested with our theme. For minifying this file, we are using CloudFlare for our demo and works fine. If you want to read other views from our users, please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
Also, check all of your Ad Spots and if you have entered any suspicious code through them, remove all of them and check the results without them.

One of our top members here on the forum wrote his own optimization tutorial here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/ and here -> https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/

Basically, these are the theme requirements
https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/

Another useful guide for increasing the page speed can be found here -> https://kinsta.com/blog/google-pagespeed-insights/

Lately, Google Page Speed Insight seems to change the layout and is not always reliable.

For minify CSS you can use this online tool -> https://www.minifier.org/

Thanks for your understanding!

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Okay, thanks. I have experience with WP optimisation, just Newspaper seems to be very stubborn and slow.

> Lately, Google Page Speed Insight seems to change the layout and is not always reliable.

Yep, I’ve also noticed this.

Guess I have the site as optimised as possible. It seems to load on mobile in around 6 seconds, which is okay I guess.

Thanks for the help!

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Hi,

That’s the default functionality for mobile devices (with the Mobile theme or Responsive Mobile layout).

Thank you!

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