- NewsmagRequirements for Newsmag
I tried a couple of Minify plugins but none of them seem to minify javascrips or css. I rather not install W3C because i only need a minify plugin. Browser caching in enabled trough nginx on my vps and WP Super Cache so i don’t need all other caching functions that come with W3C. Any ideas why minify does not seem to work?
Hello,
I’m the guy that configured this server ( http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/ ) that gets 99-100 in google page speed and since we don’t yet have a guide about how to configure the theme and server for top speed I will write here some sugestions.
If you have any questions about speed, this is the thread for you. I will make it sticky and I will check it periodically to respond to all your questions.
– the demo is running a stock Newspaper theme
– the demo uses the tagDiv speed booster plugin – basically that plugin activates the compressed javascript from the theme and it also moves all the stylesheets and javascripts to the bottom of the html. This may break compatibility with some wordpress plugins (the ones that we recommend when you install the theme are well tested and work perfectly)
The list of speed recommendations:
– we recommend that you use W3 total cache with just the full page cache module enabled. If you have a lot of ram on your server you can use the APC full page cache (if anyone is interested I can make a tutorial for that but this option requires a dedicated server)
If you have a dedicated server / VPS:
– make sure that you have APC installed or another op cache for php. We have receive some reports that eaccelerator has some problems in specific configurations with our theme and Nginx. This will reduce your server response time.
– make sure that you have compression enabled on your site for html/js/css but not for images
– leverage browser caching – https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/LeverageBrowserCaching google page speed requiers that you set an expiring cache of 7 days or more
