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Default compression for images is managed by wordpress unless you’re using a plugin of some kind; not the theme; the default “quality factor” is 90 but can be increased to 95 or 100 (no compression) by adding line in functions.php to set that. But not recommended. We typically change our compression level to 60, for faster page speed.

Be aware that jpeg images with a lot of “reds” don’t compress well ever, sadly to do how lossy jpeg/mpeg compression works.

Also, if you upload an image with very low quality the quality only gets worse.

For charts such as you’re using on your sample page, it’s best to use PNG files vs jpeg and embed those directly into the page so they are not resized/resampled to new sizes except for thumbnails. Try saving it as PNG file and place in the post, and you’ll see a HUGE improvement.

Nothing with reds/orange/dark pink compress well with jpeg — it’s nothing to do with the theme 🙂

@christophersimmons:
what you understand by “graphics loading from the network portal vs localized”? As far as I know where isn’t any CDN in Germany thus we decided to server pictures from nginx ram with having in mind that this should be faster or at least comparable to cloudfront.

Fonts and Google Analytics are loaded from Google, I think this is a preset from the theme.
jQuery and Co are loaded from public CDN. I think this is faster than serving them myself since they already should be precached.

In addition to this the only thing loaded from external servers are ads and content tests. The content tests are programmed by myself and run completely async after the on page load event. For the ads we are working on a hack to load them async, however this isn’t stable yet. The only left over part is the iam.js script. which is running sync. This is the only party I’m not allowed to change, since it is used to track the germany publisher ranking. Really sucks that they only supply a synchronous script, but it should be reasonable.

I’m not that experienced in page speed optimizations yet, thus it would be interesting for me to know which part exactly makes the page load so horribly slow? And how can I figure this out? I think up to 40 sek on mobile devices is just not acceptable for clients.

How can I activate the mod_pagespeed setting to insert image dimensions and what is it doing?

And by the way thx for your awesome expertise!

Give ur site a hour are so to let clouldflare do they job,you should get a welcome email from them letting you know ur sit is on cloudflare etc..

Congratulations! You have successfully added the website jahliveradio.com to CloudFlare. CloudFlare is a service that makes your website faster, safer, and smarter. To get the most out of our service, we recommend the following resources:

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@Gee95

several of your errors should be set on on the server/hosting side of things and not via WordPress / plugins

1) gzip/deflate must be set to “on” for your server; contact your hosting provider
2) browser caching is controlled via expiration headers for content; with Apache it’s easy with htaccess file (see the pagespeed sticky topic for my settings)
3) vary/accept encoding header, set at server

Note that is why these items are marked “server” when doing test check on speed. These items are good for about 20 points alone and should be done first before doing anything else as these are necessary for ANY website, especially WP, to run faster (or really, to run properly).

Hey Everybody

@Steven thx for sharing your expertise. Gonna try out soon!

EWWW is already in use 😉 like it! Does anyone know a hack that ewww is leaving some files out? I do have a transparent watermark which it is killing every time running over the images 😀 pretty annoying.

Does anyone know an alternative to cloudflare? Their infrastructure isn’t the best in germany. I’m pretty sure my local hosting is faster. Anyone knows a good solution to do the following things on the own server instead of using cloudflare?

3.Inline small CSS >>> Use cloudflare and they will fix that for you and a lot more.https://www.cloudflare.com
4.Minify JavaScript and CSS >>> Use cloudflare and they will fix that for you and a lot more.https://www.cloudflare.com
5.Use cookie-free domains >>> Use cloudflare and they will fix that for you and a lot more.https://www.cloudflare.com

thx for your help guys! I really appreciate it.

• This reply was modified 12 years by Manuel Fink.

Hi..
I went through this with my own optimizations of the theme over the past 8 months or so. In our case we add a number of things to the functions.php file, take couple of things out, and for a couple of things we went ahead and edited the style.css file directly, and then minified it when uploaded. I think we also have to edit the main post file each time to make author visible on post (*SIGH*), and also change the prefix for hit counter since we’ve been using a custom field for many many years.

It did make site faster, just be sure to keep a cheat sheet of what you’re changing, and keep separate set of files as back up obviously. Minification helped the most, and if you’re only doing two or three over-rides for CSS in theme panel, it won’t impact anything; meaning you could just minify the style.css, put your couple of CSS overrides in the theme panel and call it a day. If you have 20 changes… yes, likely worth adding to the main style.css.

Downside is I tend to skip every couple of updates since I’m not doing anything with jetpack, buddypress, bbpress, WMPL, logins, social counter, woocommerce, where there have been some updates to help those type of users.

1) remove all external loading elements like social media, advertising, recaptcha, and anything which loads css or js as part of its content; anything not part of the theme

2) use the minification tools I’ve suggested in the pagespeed sticky topic – such as online minification tools, or use the GTMetrix optimized versions provided during the site scan

Basically you need to take the CSS and JS files which PageSpeed is saying need to be minified, and then copy those from your theme directory, minify them, then save the minified version over the original.

One tool to minify the CSS is here:
http://cssminifier.com/

or
http://gpbmike.github.io/refresh-sf/

After you have your minified versions, say of style.css you would need to FTP the minified version(s) to your web site into the wp-content/themes/newspaper folder in the appropriate place.

NOTE: you need to clear all caching, turn OFF caching, and then upload the optimized versions, so that the new versions get cached not the old ones.

3) see 2

If you have a page speed of “82”
then be sure to
1) have faster web hosting account
2) ensure that gzip/deflate are working on your server (mandatory!)
3) enable expires headers (mandatory!)
4) optimize your images

All of this is well covered in the PageSpeed sticky topic in the forum. Optimization of your server, content, and htaccess or nginx config files are not part of the theme.

There is no way for you to optimize external content such as AdSense, AddThis, Recaptcha, Disqus, etc. which are not being served on your actual site.

For max speed you will need to use web safe fonts (not Google fonts), and then comment out the fonts in your functions.php file.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

@fabriciosahdo

you need to optimize your site for optimized images, caching, use the tagdiv speed booster plugin, expires headers, etc. The theme cannot fix your content or your website or hosting, these are things you need to do.

See the documentation, and also read through this entire thread to get a better understanding on how you can improve your site performance.

https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

Hi Radu,

What do you mean ? I’ve updated to the 3.7 but it doesn’t work with cache enabled only when cache is deseabled. But i need cache plugin to make my website faster.

You mean i have to update to 3.8 ?

Yes I reinstalled Simple Lightbox. I also added other settings to increase speed via the htaccess and ensured compression was on at server level. I agree the lightbox I am using could be faster and I may go back and try dfactory again.

There is also issues with JavaScript which I think are related to DiggDigg social media like buttons along the side and I am looking for a replacement for this.

Thanks