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Hi!
it works like a charm 🙂

Many thanks for being so quick and professional. I really appreciate that.

Make sure the server is running deflate/gzip properly, and you have the proper expires headers set, and server side normal caching if so provided, …. compression and expires headers are good for at least 20 points.

Just for a reference point, one of my pages on the test site, with caching plugin turned off, and the disqus, adsense stuff running (3 ad spots), Gravatar, and one YouTube video.
http://ga-ga.com/1763/book-review-anti-americans-star-sons-wichita/

is 90 desktop / 79 mobile

I need to swap out Gravatar for local author image and should shave off 708bytes from the featured image upload (has “red” in it, so didn’t compress as much).

With the gravatar fixed, and if I ignore the “errors” from Disqus and AdSense, it’s totally in a doable range for us.

I think it works out to be 93/83 without the “errors” on there.

Not bad since NOT running any caching plugin, not using CDN, and not using a minification plugin other than mod_pagespeed optimizing the pages on the fly.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

oh got it.
thank you! 🙂

@Manuel Fink my settings as follow..

1.Loads javascript files from Google Libraries

2.Defers parsing of javascript files.

3.Removes query strings from static resources

4.Load CSS asynchronously

5.Minify all CSS styles

6.Insert all CSS styles inline to the footer

Remove junk header tags

I’ve choose all of them…

Hi @Manuel the best plugin right now is “Speed Booster” the owner done some awesome updates today and made the plugin more powerfull so i’m only using that one along side the “Leverage Browser Caching plugin”.

@thomaspe i recommend you to use the “Speed Booster” plugin as well which work very well with the theme.

Speed Booster

Main Plugin Features

Eliminates external render-blocking javascript and css in above-the-fold content.

Moves scripts to the footer to improve page loading speed.

Loads CSS asynchronously to render your page more quickly and get a higher score on the major speed testing services.

Minify and inline all CSS styles and move them to the footer to eliminate external render-blocking CSS and optimize CSS delivery.

Lazy loads images to improve page load times and save bandwidth.

Changes image compression level to keep file sizes smaller.

Loads javascript files from Google Libraries rather than serving them from your WordPress install directly, to reduce latency, increase parallelism and improve caching.

Defers parsing of javascript files to reduce the initial load time of your page.

Removes query strings from static resources to improve your speed scores.

Removes extra Font Awesome stylesheets added to your theme by certain plugins, if Font Awesome is already used in your theme.

Removes junk header tags to clean up your WordPress Header.

Displays page loading time in the plugin options page.

Displays the number of executed queries in the plugin options page.

Displays the Peak Memory Used in the plugin options page.

Hi Lucian!

thank you for your quick answer and solution.
I tried it and on chrome, the problem is solved when user is not logged. The same problem comes back when user logs in. I tried to change to this value >>> margin-right: 8px. It solves the problem.
Then I tried to log in with long usernames: the problem comes back again.

Any idea?
thanks

@manual
best bet for my stuff, is go “backwards” from here as the stuff for htaccess file still good, for Apache/Linux. I’m only running nginx for some stuff on our server, we use Apache for compatibility with 20 years of content and some stuff not practical to reinvent at this time.

mod_pagespeed … I am running kind of a moderate number of things with defaults on server wide, then htaccess for local per site/folder controls/over-rides or “off.” With nginx I think you have to use a config file.

Anyway…. here’s my htaccess minus the 301 stuff:

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
ModPagespeed on
ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace
ModPagespeedEnableFilters move_css_to_head
ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_css
ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters insert_dns_prefetch
</IfModule>

# start WordPress
(removed; might be diff for other setups :-)
# END WordPress

AddType text/javascript .js

# BEGIN Expire headers
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 5 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 600 seconds"
</IfModule>
# END Expire headers

# BEGIN Cache-Control Headers
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<filesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "private"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(x?html?|php)$">
Header set Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>
</IfModule>
# END Cache-Control Headers

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header unset ETag
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch 403 /xmlrpc.php
</IfModule>

Here’s my robots.txt file (again, your needs may vary)

User-agent: *
 Disallow: /cgi-bin
 Disallow: /cgi-bin/
 Disallow: /wp-admin
 Disallow: /wp-admin/
 Disallow: /wp-includes
 Disallow: /wp-includes/
 Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
 Disallow: /wp-content/cache
 Disallow: /wp-content/themes
 Disallow: /wp-content/upgrade
 Disallow: /wp-content/backup-*
 Disallow: /aff/
 Disallow: /search/*/*
 Disallow: /trackback
 Disallow: */trackback
 Disallow: /trackback/

We’re currently not running things off our Amazon CDN for the WP sites, in favor of using the horsepower of the dedicated server with high-speed switch, APC, mod_pagespeed, etc. Not finding it super beneficial to load those 1kb sprites off the CDN, frankly. (Brand new web server Dec. 2013). And for us tweaking is simpler when it’s all using one system, and letting mod_pagespeed fix some stuff.

I was manually minifying the style.css file and couple other things. Have not done that with latest version (just updated last weekend). Simple to do … some of my posts on here reference the websites like css minifier where you can copy/paste your code, make new file and over-write the theme css file to solve that issue (takes 5 minutes).

I had too many issues with the caching plugins so not using right now.

Take Google’s PageSpeed Insights with major grain of salt.

On one of my project sites (not running WP), we have the CSS loading from external file, minified, got pagespeed score of 87 and warning about only 47% of page loading above the fold (menu wasn’t showing up), and this could be seen missing from screen capture. So, we put all the code inline, speed went to 95 desktop, 85 mobile, but warning about above the fold now says only 1% was able to be loaded, but snapshot of screen shows everything above fold loaded properly.

Similarly on our WP install running Newspaper, here’s one of their wonderful “suggestions” ….

Reduce server response time
In our test, your server responded in 0.36 seconds. There are many factors that can slow down your server response time. Please read our recommendations to learn how you can monitor and measure where your server is spending the most time.

So, apparently 0.36 seconds is considered slow?

🙂

thanks Lucian

however that isn’t correct – it not custom ad 3 its ARTICLE TOP AD and using the code you gave me adds another ad 3 block above the header text with the words in the loop-single.php shown under.

thanks

Andrew