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Hey BoredDaddy…
I will be offering this as a service again next year (WP optimization service) once we revamp our sites (ongoing); in midst of deploying new web server right now and sorting our memcache + eAccerlator + Google’s mod_pagespeed at server level. In midst of new server, and migrating our sites over, blah blah. The really arcane stuff is having mod_pagespeed convert images to Google’s new “in house” image format to load faster where it has a built-in image pyramid, with what we used to do for lowsrc (b/w image) to load as a progressive layer while the color image loads in. Wild stuff.

But to answer your question:
If you follow Radu’s little shortlist, that is a good “starting point” to get your site ramped up. His plugin does bunch of the stuff, and if you use that, turn off any whacky “phone home” plugins which are resource hogs, check your htaccess file for expiration headers, optimize your site images, and whatnot, you’ll be in good shape.

Use GTmetrix as a slightly more friendly and forgiving starting point for PageSpeed test, as it will actually tell you HOW to fix stuff. The Google version seems to be a little off, especially their latest version which catches all their own code as errors (!).

I have just tried to enable W3TC with APC page cache and get Error 500. Previously, I have installed APC in WHM. Maybe i have done something wrong.
Any suggestion?

No, I cleared the cache and it’s still happening to me. The dimensions of the logo are exactly what should be in there. Any other ideas? I feel like its ruining the mobile experience of the theme.

Thank you.

Yes, the site is now without any cache, no minify etc.

hello,
i sow that you are using W3 Total Cache, please disable that, it conflicts with the theme. Also if you have additional pluggins installed, try deactivate them, then try again.

Thanks for you message.
Radu A.

Result PageSpeed 77 – 100 (desktop)
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2F50.97.105.190%2F~cidad259%2F&tab=desktop

URL – http://50.97.105.190/~cidad259/
Example code .htaccess

# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/json
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        # DEFLATE by extension
        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Browser Cache

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~cidad259/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /~cidad259/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<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>

What is missing to get to 90?

I installed the plugins
tagDiv speed booster
W3C total cache ( enable only cache page)

Results 72 de 100 desktop
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2F50.97.105.190%2F~cidad259%2F&tab=mobile

URL
http://50.97.105.190/~cidad259/

# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-

component application/x-javascript application/javascript 

text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext 

image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-

icon application/json
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        # DEFLATE by extension
        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Browser Cache

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase 

/~cidad259/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %

{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /~cidad259/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

accept suggestions?

Hi – just my 2 cents –

before doing anything (theme out of box on new shared server) – had page speeds of 45 mobile and 58 desktop

then, added gz deflate code to htaccess file, and configured W3 total cache – and now my google page speeds are: mobile 75 and desktop 92 – and I am fine with it

In my opinion, for shared servers – wordpress isn’t going to get much faster than that…

the gz deflate had the most increase (I forgot to track the exact increase – but it was over 20) – if someone needs to know how to do this – I would recommend asking support on your hosting site –

I added back “addthis” plugin – and desktop speed only went down to 91 – but for me totally worth the “add this” value…

I should also note that I currently do not run ads on my sites (still developing content) but I agree that will slow it down a bit (that was mentioned)

One thing I would like to know if the theme could clean this up though (from google speed test)

Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:

http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A300%2C400%2C600%2C700&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Cgreek-ext%2Cgreek%2Cvietnamese%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu%3A300%2C400%2C500%2C700%2C300italic%2C400italic%2C500italic%2C700italic&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Cgreek-ext%2Cgreek%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans%3A400%2C700%2C400italic&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald%3A400%2C300%2C700&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Condensed%3A300italic%2C400italic%2C700italic%2C400%2C300%2C700&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Cgreek-ext%2Cgreek%2Cvietnamese%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1

vidapropria

Hi! Not sure if this weill help you or not, but note I previously shared how to do the htaccess .. remember it’s not the function of the “theme” to teach you how to optimize your website, you need to go research how to optimize your site, hosting account, optimize your images in Photoshop or similar prior to upload, etc.

Buying a race car doesn’t teach you how to drive — it can go 150 MPH/KPH but you have to take the wheel.

There are numerous resources on the net to learn how to set-up your web server account for gzip, expiration headers, optimize your images prior to uploading to your site, editing your htaccess file for WordPress, limiting use of resource hogging plugins unless absolutely necessary, etc., using W3cache with the minimal settings recommended in this forum from Radu/Marius (( QUOTE: w3 total cache use only the ‘full page cache.’ ))

You can see some info I shared here that might be helpful to optimizing YOUR site:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/what-is-your-googlespeed-value/

Our site using Newspaper has “96” speed without using a cache plugin or CDN (yet). We followed “best practices” for managing a WP theme and proper server setup.

If you run a speed test on YOUR site (PageSpeed or GTMetrix, etc), then follow the changes you can make first, that is a huge step in optimizing YOUR site.

Radu/Marius … feel free to borrow from my posts to create a “sticky” on
“TIPS FOR PAGE SPEED OPTIMIZATION” or similar. 🙂

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Thanks, that was the workaround, not activating minify. Unfortunately without minify activated the site doesn’t have optimized speed. There is no other solution that we can do and have minify enabled?

if you btw are using some sort of cache, then remember to clear the cache and disable afterwards before you disable the other plugins. Otherwise you wont see the difference.

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 🙂

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>

I’m having the same problem.
When I publish a new post (or delete the last one), I can’t view it in the homepage when accessing normally, until I do a refresh in the page.
In practice, a recurrent visitor will see the same homepage he viewed the last time he access the page, until he make a manually refresh.

No cache plugin used. WP 3.7.1, theme v1.7.2.
I’ve not activated Jetpack plugin.
Homepage is using module 5 layout.

The web is at laweblegal.com/blog (but you can only see the problem if you reaccess the page and there has been published a post since your last visit).