Hi there,
It’s the first time we use the Newspaper theme to create a website. However, what is negatively surprising is the speed we obtain with the theme. We are still trying to improve it since we have bad results.
The website is located here: https://letzbehealthy.com and is configured for two “languages/regions” with WPML.
We followed the different recommendations given here: https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/ and in other topics on the forum. The only thing is that we did not set up any CDN: our target population is in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and the server is localized in France (Gravelines, OVH). Also, to start, we are on a shared server since we don’t have much traffic, but we will consider switching to a dedicated server when it will grow. The website is, however, slow while never reaching limits of the CPU usage.
Regarding the Plugins, we have:
– Advanced Ads Pro;
– Autoptimize to minify CSS;
– Contact Form 7;
– Duplicator Pro (running during the night);
– Insert Pages;
– Newsletter;
– Really Simple SSL;
– ShortPixel Image Optimizer;
– Slide Anything;
– The Events Calendar;
– Wordfence Security;
– TagDiv suite (except Mobile Theme & Standard Pack since we only use Cloud Templates);
– WP Super Cache;
– WP-Optimize to clean the database episodically;
– WPML suite, and;
– Yoast.
We, therefore, use well-known plugins that are quite standard…
The score is “OK” when looking at the desktop version (PageSpeed Google), with a score starting around 80 when the cache of the server is cleaned and slightly improves after reload. Still, the page loading speed could sincerely be enhanced.
On the mobile side, the score is horrible. We don’t use the mobile theme because our mobile display is supposed to be a simpler version of the desktop version with the same design & functions. We use lighten versions of our desktop version thanks to CSS hidden functions (which is the recommendation from TD team)…
Anyway, Lazyload is activated, images are optimized & sized correctly (normally), etc. What’s wrong?
Thank you in advance for your input
Hi Calin,
I actually switched from ‘Autoptimize’ to ‘Merge, Minify, Refresh’. That appears to have fixed it. I will keep an eye on it.
Thanks again
Liam
Hi,
If you find out that the problem is between tagDiv Mobile theme Plugin and WP Rocket plugin, then it must be a setting from the cache plugin, unfortunately we do not have a guide for this, because this plugin was not tested with our theme, but most probably is from minify css and js files.
Thank you for your understanding!
Thanks imkimc! Fast Minify recommendation is amazing!! Was using Auto Optimize this way better. Thanks.
Well, I really become so much when I saw my website speed is 100. I never expected to have this. Because I just use shared hosting. Also, don’t use any CDN. Even I didn’t use the minify plugin also. So how is this possible?
Although I checked again but also 99 and for mobile also 94/95.
Hi! Sorry, I just activate another theme for testing, when you come to my site. Actually it looks like this http://prntscr.com/rwqskv
So as I understood, you recommend me to disable Google fonts? But what if I want to use Google fonts? And how they even connect with an unused CSS cache file?
As I said before I used WP Rocket for caching (best premium cache plugin) and Imagify to compress my images and convert it in WebP format, which is really lightweight, and also I use minification plugin to minify my CSS and Java. So it’s almost all that you can do to improve your website speed, except using CDN.
But as you can see, problem not here. In another free theme, I have a less 1-sec result with the same set of plugins and content.
Hello, I have some strange problem with unused CSS file – http://prntscr.com/rwltyx
When I manually delete this file, it’s recreating. As I understood, most of the heavy CSS files come from theme plugins – http://prntscr.com/rwlvbb
What I can do to delete this file? Also, I use WP Rocket, and Imagify and minify plugins, so I can’t do anything more to improve loading speed. The only way – to delete this strange CSS file, which is even not in use.
My site URL – https://websiteneophyte.com/
Hello !
Unfortunately this option is not available with Newspaper Theme. You can use a minify tools as this: https://unminify.com/
Thank you !
Hi I’m still seeing the odd issue with this, I think related to my Litespeed cache combine/minify css/js. Can you point me in the right direction to exclude the right file or files from caching?
thanks
Hi,
Unfortunately, this plugin has not been tested with our theme, therefore we do not know what settings are required to work properly with our theme, but in most cases the problems that you are facing are from minify the css or js.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi,
The mobile theme plugins appear on desktop because of the cache plugins, these are minify the css and js and using the mobile theme will minify the css for mobile too, but will no longer know when to display the mobile css, therefore this will appear on desktop, the cache plugin that we recommend with our settings from the guide will know the css and when to apply it.
As I can see you require assistance for optimize your website speed, unfortunately these are not covered by the theme support, therefore all I can do is to provide some suggestions.
The for the .woff problem you can find the solution in this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/page/4/ also most of the tips for page speed are provided in this topic.
Hope this will help you!
Thank you!
Hi,
Need help with the mentioned file, it is slowing down my site. Is there any way to fix it or decrease the load time for Newspaper.woff
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.techworm.net/xdvil1zJ
Also kindly let me know what else can I do to improve page loading speed for techworm.net, homepage is fine, I meant page loading speed for articles on the web version.
I am currently using a managed vps with LiteSpeed enabled Cloudflare, using wp-rocket as cache plugin( i know wp super cache is recommended but wp-rocket is showing better results) using Imagify to compress images.
I have gone through almost all available posts here, so please do not share a link of anything that I already know about without checking on the site mentioned.
I am also using the newspaper mobile theme separately, I tried to enable minify CSS files, but it causes problems if I am using the mobile theme, web version sometimes start throwing up the mobile version.
I think minify CSS files will work fine if do not use the mobile theme, but this will increase the page load speed for the mobile version.
Thanks
Hi,
You can use these plugin with our theme, but you’ll need to find the right settings for that will not cause problem, unfortunately we can not say what are the settings, sorry! In most cases the problems appear from js and css minify settings.
Also if you are only deleting the theme file and plugins, thee will not affect the settings and cloud templates, all these are saved in database, but we always recommend to make firs a backup and only after that to make the theme update/reinstall.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi,
You can use these plugins with our theme, but you’ll need to find the right settings for them, unfortunately we can not say what are the settings, sorry! In most cases the problems appear from js and css minify settings.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi,
That can be delete only manually from theme files, or you can use some plugins for minify, unfortunately we can’t recommend one because we haven’t tested any of them with our theme.
Thank you!
Hi aktech508,
The minify process is part from speed optimize process -> https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/
-> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/optimize-script-to-improve-site-speed/
Hope this will help you!
Thank you.
I am trying both to deactivate W3 Total Cache and adding custom minification code in functions.php. but when we add this code only all images will be disable rather then when we remove code it will be show and code.
What is the solution how we can minify HTML, CSS and JS
Also, I send message through email to contact@tagdiv.com but no one replies till 2 days.
thanks for reply,
But I am already used w3total cache for minification. I have tried both with or without plugin minify the HTML and CSS but when we activate images will be disabled and when we remove or deactivate plugin it will display images on site.
Hi,
You can use a plugin for minification, here is a list of the best 7 Best WordPress Minify Plugins -> https://crayonify.com/7-best-wordpress-minify-plugins/
Hope this will help you!
Thank you!
Hello !
We have investigate your website and as you can see you can improve your page speed using a cloudflare, minfying the javascript ( I would suggest Fast Velocity Minify ) is not tested with newspaper theme but We have seen that a lot of users use it and it provides better results.
Here are the results: https://www.screencast.com/t/SlKflrCwyFsL
I hope this was helpful !
Thank you !
Hello !
I have made some tests on a personal website and got back with some great result using Fast Velocity Minify plugin, only activate it and leave the settings stock.
Let me know if this worked out for you !
Thank you !
Hi,
If you disable that the Varnish caching the it should work correctly.
Is look that the plugin that you are using minify the css from mobile theme and it do not know which css to deliver for desktop.
Thank you!
Dear Tagdiv,
we are using SuperCache and Fast Velocity Minify.
When running page speed insight>
Remove unused CSS 0.44 s
for … /header-06f201bc.min.css
Eliminate render-blocking resources 0.28 s
for … …out/header-06f201bc.min.css 177 KB 710 ms
…out/header-826b5626.min.js 76 KB 590 ms
What would be your recommendation?
1. As you find optimizing images manually tricky/time consuming, I would suggest using an image optimization plugin to optimize all images on your blog.
2. After you optimize all images, you can setup Cloudflare CDN or re-enable Jetpack Photon. Cloudflare/Jetpack photon will surely help your blog to serve images faster.
3. Make sure WP Super cache plugin settings are correct.
4. You don’t need Shareaholic as the theme comes with inbuilt share buttons.
5. Use plugins like Autoptimize or Fast Velocity Minify to optimize scripts on your blog.
I hope you will find this helpful.
See this thread: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/minify-javascript-and-css-errors/
I posted an answer there. Basically you need the plugin Autoptimize.
