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Reading the tips on GTmetrix.com when you analyze your website issues, is super useful. They even make optimized images for you of the worst offenders.

For photos;
you need to upload optimized versions to begin with; obviously a 250kb image that should be 50kb will be problem with speed. Some plugins like ‘smush it’ or similar can help. If your host supports mod_pagespeed, that can also resave large images in faster formats like webp.

For thumbs, try changing default compression level (e.g., ’60’) in your wp-config.php file, then “regenerate thumbnails” to redo all those at smaller sizes.

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Did you check your post with GTmetrix.com ?

Did you review my long tutorial on how to optimize your site?

Did you look at the tutorials in the docs section on suggestions for speeding up site?

All good places to start 🙂

Sorry Catalin but as far as I can see all this information applies only (or mainly) to desktop version and I am very satisfied to its speed. I do not see any particular options or methods to optimize specifically mobile version. I would be very grateful for any help.

Yes, you are right. Thanks a lot.

I was using Autoptimize plugin to optimize .js codes.

Can you please share the render blocking javascript file names that Newspaper uses? I’ll use those in the ignore list so the plugin can be used without any issue.

Regards

For solution;
The problem is due to Autoptimize plugin (https://automattic.com/wordpress-plugins/).
i disabled to JavaScript option, everything is okey now

Hi Catalin,
i tested the plug in after u say. and now i figure out.
The problem is due to Autoptimize plugin (https://automattic.com/wordpress-plugins/).
i disabled to JavaScript option, everything is okey now i think.

But the other issue is when i click the next page, the screen throws me and the bottom of the page (not top of the page).

You can set number of revisions to keep for WP by editing the wp-config.php file; you can also try optimizing your dbase with the WP-Optimize plugin.

define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3 );
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

Basic part of WordPress, not part of the theme.

Some tips:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-post-revisions-in-wordpress-and-reduce-database-size/

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Images are not compressed/optimized via my web host; I optimize my images in Photoshop and they are all optimized in the same manner.

I disabled all of my plugins per your instructions and the problem remains. Please look at my home page again and note that the stretched images only appear stretched on Blocks 24 and 25 which are the two blocks that have been customized for this theme only. Those customized blocks were the sole reason I chose the Erotic theme; I loved their unique layout. I gave up on Block 25 entirely provided I could use Block 24 properly, but my images are completely distorted on Block 24. Could it be the way Blocks 24 and 25 were coded? (I’m grasping at straws at this point.)

As you can see from the other test blocks that I added, all of my images were shown correctly; those blocks are your standard blocks and show my images perfectly.

I don’t know how to correct this issue. I’m really hoping for your guidance at this point. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Again … theme cannot fix your basic system setup stuff; you have to do that yourself, as with *all* WordPress themes and any website in general.

Using GTMetrix.com to test a post on your site will also give you specific examples of the things you can optimize with tips, if the speed guide I linked to above is no help. 🙂

Hello,

I would also like to enable Gzip compression.

As the theme is marketed as a fast and easy to use theme without needing to know coding, I find tagDiv’s communication style a bit nerdy and technical. For example the guide says:

“The theme demo server is set like this:”

An amateur like me would ask, “set like this, where?” Is that a piece of code from the .htaccess file or what is it?

Anyway, I asked my hosting provider how to do it and they gave me links to different Gzip plugins.

Question: can you recommend some plugin for this use?

Feedback for future: please try to make the end product as easy (and good) as possible for the non-technical user – as it is marketed. It can’t be that you always hide behind the explanation that “optimizing site speed is for advanced users..” or “you need a developer”. On your theme sales page it says:

“Because everything is perfectly optimized for you!”

Well, mine is 90+ without a caching plugin and not fully optimized since moving from 2x to 3x.

You might look at my long-winded tutorial in the ‘best of forums’ section, as I cover many tricks for optimizing the site – from the basic htaccess stuff, various WP optimizations for wp-config.php, removing google fonts and using system font-stack, switching to local avatars, not using social ‘likes’ tracking, removing unused CSS not used (e.g., woocommerce, bbpress, if not using them); minification of main css and js manually; using a lazy load YouTube plugin to show thumb, and only load video when clicked (won’t work on featured vids outside post); limit modules used ‘per post page,’ to limit PHP calls; make sure using php 5.6 or higher with opcache ‘on’; changing default thumbnail image compression to make images as compact as possible for thumbs; etc.

It is doable. If you have gzip/deflate on, time to live extensions, opcache, and limit external loading, you should at least be 65 as baseline. Anything below that shows serious issues unrelated to theme.

@Page52

Thank you for your answer. I’m building my own website and i find yours very interesting in design especially the clean setup of the menu background. Mine goes horizontal from left to right all over the monitor and yours is cut in width along with the content of the website. I was looking to optimize mine like that. Thanks anyway.

Milan

You need to actually choose one of the other templates for the footer, not the default one in order to use the widget areas. Try changing to the blank one with three empty colums, then save. Then clear any caching; try clearing transients with WP-Optimize; hit ‘force refresh’ in Chrome once logged out. It does work.

Found it.
Disabling all the plugins didn’t provide any result.
Then I realized that I’ve added the Google Optimize script to the theme’s settings.
Removed it, and everything is smooth again.