Hello
I am finding it impossible to get the theme to run at an acceptable speed and performance metric.
I have two sites running at the moment. My original live site and the staging site
Live original http://www.techbusinessnews.com.au
Staging test site before moving to live https://www.techpressmedia.com/techbusinessnews/
These are both on the same very fast lightspeed cPanel server.
I have migrated my site data over to the test stage. So it is exactly the same site. Same plugins ect ect
My original site is highly optimised and I have applied all possible optimisations to the staging site
My big issue is un-cached pages.
My life site will load an un-cached page in less than 2 seconds.
The staging site will take up to 7 seconds to load an uncached page.
Strangely enough turning OFF lazyload actually increased performance.
I have plugins down to the bear minimum also
I have manually minified everything
I have optimised images as far as possible
I am using CDN – (But the big problem is dead slow uncached paged and I need to purge often)
I have also come across many bugs. For instance. Bu turning off lazyload this made my admin bar disappear and I had to force it back with this CSS
function admin_bar(){
if(is_user_logged_in()){
add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_true’ , 1000 );
}
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘admin_bar’ );
I have been optimising websites for many years heavily. This seems to be the first theme I have come across that loads non cached pages so slowly.
My current live site has constant 98 to 100 page speed and cached and non cached pages. The newspaper theme I cannot get over 60% is giving very poor page experience.
I have also used the CSS analyser on top
I have tested with both litespeed plugins and wp-cache and also using a combo of both for different functions.
I am also constantly having my server resources spike and max out causing 503s
I have done everything possible. No site speed here for non cached pages and also poor metrics
What am I missing with this theme?
Hi,
If I understand correctly, the problem is only for the pages that are not cached. Do you have many pages that do not need to be cached?
What I can recommend to do to improve the page speed is to set less flex blocks on pages and cloud templates, remove the ajax pagination from flex blocks, disable the google fonts, disable the standard pack (in case that is enabled and you use some elements from this plugin, those will be display as shortcodes), you also can disable the view post count (remove it with tagDiv Composer from post template) and disable the ajax view count.
I hope that doing those optimizations the speed will became better.
Thank you!
Tried all of that mate. All of them. It made no difference.
I have done all
Site up on Bunny CDN and minified everything
Reduced everything as far as possible already as you had suggested
Hello @mgiannelis!
Unfortunately, we can help you only with some advices. If you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here: https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/ you’ll be able to increase the speed of your website.
Other starting points to improve your website page speed are here:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnkVapqhIHc
– https://www.andraware.com/wp-rocket-for-newspaper-theme/
Please check the tutorials from those platforms gt metrix and Google Pagespeed Insights and I’m sure you can increase the page speed.
Please note that page speed is not covered by the support team: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-support/
If you really tried all of our suggestions and your page speed is still so slow, then you can contact our custom work and they can help you to achieve what you need: https://tagdiv.com/premium-customization-services/
Thank you!
Hi
Ive been developing and optimising sites most of my life. I am very aware of all the above mentioned and implemented most of it. The theme is just seems very very heavy.
