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Make sure images are optimized; make sure enough RAM allocated; see the theme docs > tutorials on how to speed up site; test post on GTmetrix.com to ensure your server optimized, WordPress optimized, etc.
Hello,
Well this is the way css works when you re-write it. If your page speed is not optimized, or you use speedbooster to move the render blocking css to the footer as google page speed recommends, this is the effect. Google page speed recommends you move the css to the footer but it will not say that all your styles will apply muuuch slower as the css will wait until everything is loaded before it can apply your style.
The easiest solution for this is to view your page source in your preferred browser and copy all of the rendered css between the style tags (do not copy the style tags though.just the code inside it) like so: http://screencast.com/t/ut5nfIvXp and paste the code at the very end of style.css from the main theme folder on your server. This way all your styles will load first and css will not show the rewrites
Thank you!
Hello,
The files are the same. The tracking code should be added in the same files. Parts of the code got moved and some got removed and some parts added in. Code gets optimized on each update but the file structure remains the same. Header and footer.php are requirements for every theme so they will not get removed. The head and body tag will always be located in the header.php file
Maybe you have them set through the child theme. We also recommend updating the child theme as well. Please read this topic for an explanation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/setting-up-child-theme/
Thank you!
Hello aliqayyum,
Please try to disable all the active plugins, leave just Visual Composer to active, clear all your caches and install only the plugins that come bundled with our theme and rule out any conflicting plugins. Clear all your caches, remove server caches (if you do not have any access to do it, request this task to the service provider).
For your second request, please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Please notice that this is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hello football5,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Please notice that this is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi guys,
I think that Speed Booster plugin need some adjustment for latest versions of Yoast 3.7.0 & 3.7.1
Right now, with the speed-booster activated, only the homepage is optimized.
If we analyze with Google Insights all the site (posts, pages, taxonomy) less the homepage, throw render-blocking (¡for both, PC & mobile!) even if the JS & CSS are moved at the bottom. Something that has not happened to me with Yoast 3.5.2 or earlier.
Always using: Yoast, VC, Speed-Booster – system status OK (no modification, only dequeue VC).
I hope you can find a quick solution.
Thank you!
Anecdotally:
For all site, I dequeue Visual Composer and I left it only for the homepage. So theoretically & practically the homepage is the heaviest page from all domain, but still remains the most optimized 🙂
I prefer otherwise.
Well, if you look at line 5 of your wp-config file, what’s there?
Perhaps a link to your dbase or directory no longer there, old caching setup, etc.?
If so maybe your “dbase is going away” — or trying to write to folder not actually there anymore?
If you already looked at your wp-config.php file…..
a) check system status in theme panel
b) check error logs on your hosting setup/account
c) increase default memory for WP, if not already done so in wp-config.php
d) optimize your dbase with wp-optimize
(etc.)
(( I don’t work here, just some advice. )) 🙂
Hi
The theme has been developed to be fast but it may still need configurations on this matters so test your site using google’s page speed insights testing tool(or gtmetrix) and try to follow the instructions indicated there to optimize the server. Also make sure that the parameters from system status have the values indicated in our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/ You can also try to deactivate all plugins except Visual Composer to reduce the queries and use mysql query cache to improve the loading speed: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/query-cache.html For more details about you can check our documentation in page-speed regard: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Thanks!
” A possible solution would be to add support for Visual Composer in mobile theme but for the moment we don’t plan to add this feature as will defeat theme’s purpose”
70% of the internet is on mobile now. Even google is almost ready to go “Mobile first” for their ranking algorithm and everything. So, I can’t ignore mobile speed and optimization but at the same time, just because of speed, we are killing almost all other features that Newspaper has to offer. It’s so ironic that the whole documentation for Newspaper mobile theme can be written on just one full-length page but it’s been used 70-80% of the time ( in terms of traffic). Hence , we are doing everything for 20-30% traffic but not for the major portion 🙁
I also feel that just because now you have created a separate plugin for the mobile theme, psychologically , you might be putting less effort in making further mobile optimization in your parent theme. Since you might be thinking that you have already achieved 300-400% more optimization on mobile theme so, if someone needs speed, you have a ‘ ready answer’ to ask them to use “Mobile theme” . but that time, neither user, nor you think that in that case, the whole awesome “Newspaper” theme will become the simplest blog theme which has nothing to offer other than speed in terms functionality;
So, Please give enough time to mobile theme feature updates and then you can give an option to “enable and disable” visual composer for mobile theme.
In fact, for the main theme too, we should have the option to disable or enable “loading of extra codes” page. post or categories basis to optimize it fully. We are using hard-coded shortcodes and smart list options in our various posts, so, if we even think to change the theme in future, it is going to break the site. So, it’s highly unlikely that we are ever going to change the theme.
Therefore we have high hopes from TagDiv.
Thank you.
Hello Bogdan,
Thank you for your fast reply.
I realized that the width is indeed smaller than 728px, but hopefully forcing that size for the “Article bottom ad” looks OK.
I am taking this opportunity to point this out. Since this is the most common banner size of AdSense, wouldn’t it be appropriate for a theme that claims to be AdSense optimized, to allow for such a size in the main part and a 300px on the sidebar?
I would like to clarify this from the very beginning though, I am not complaining or anything… I am just curious why you decided to go for a 696px width when using a sidebar. No sidebar is a rather uncommon layout nowadays and with the most common widths of AdSense being 300px, 728px, 970px, it just doesn’t make sense. A width of 696px is too large for a mobile banner of 320px and it is small for 728px. “Resizable” ads will resize to 696px * 84px making their text unreadable in most cases, while non-resizable ads will show as 320px * 100px leaving 188px of blank space from left and right.
Furthermore, AdSense links are around for centuries and in fact, they are very effective. Without any special types of ads, or special accounts, like AdSense Premium, AdSense allows 3 Ad units and ANOTHER 3 Ad links. Not supporting links, in theory, cuts the potential ad revenue in half and it is definitely a missing feature of an AdSense optimized theme.
Thus, consider a suggestion of mine to add support for AdSense Ad links and possibly widen the main part of the theme to 728px.
Thank you very much,
D.
Chris S., I’m very good at SEO…been doing this for a long time. All of our 16K+ articles have great optimized content. My question is about whether Newspaper adds value to SEO or makes it harder to rank high organically. Is there a US number I can call you at to discuss this further…?
We have amazing SEO results, but that’s because the content was created from the get go without concern for the “template” impacting SEO.
Meaning, the theme does not add/change your actual post content, title, meta data, h2/h3 tags in post or basic SEO practice of having your primary keywords in post title, meta title, first paragraph, description, and used couple of times in the actual post.
So, if your page is about chicken soup and that isn’t used properly it won’t rank as such, and regardless of theme/template/fonts/style/colors used.
Perhaps you mis-understand ‘focus keywords’ — what that means is that for any given page/post about something, like “chocolate recipe” — that “focus” keyword is used to “test” the SEO value of that post under that phrase. So, the “focus keyword” for that page might be “chocolate recipes” and you’d need to ensure that page is “optimized” for that content.
You can’t auto-magically add more content to posts without knowing what each post is supposed to be focused on; meaning if you have an article about Fords, just randomly inserting 20 instances of “FORD” on the page isn’t going to help anything.
You could hire us to help on this but frankly, the best course is simply look at your content and the posts you wish to rank well and really look at them one by one, and use the tools to ‘review’ that post/page. Yoast SEO then can help you “analyze” that — just because there was no focus keywords entered in yoast panel doesn’t mean there are none. Any page on any topic has built in focus keywords just by having the text in there.
So, my suggestion would be to read through the YOAST documentation and tutorials in depth to better understand what it actually does in this context (pun there).
We’re not cheap; but we’ve been doing SEO for 21 years now. But the point of using Yoast is to educate you on how you can do it yourself.
Start with good content about something. Then optimize that post using Yoast as an aid, but not always the 100% accurate expert. It’s an opinion, not the law. YOu can use it as help, not a requirement.
Hope that helped just a little 🙂
Good morning tagDiv,
As we talked in a previous topic about dequeue_visual_composer working together with Speed Booster, which by the way, you’ve solved, right now I find that all categories and tags loaded this VC plummet even if is not required.
My Q is, how we can dequeue this plugin from categories and tags?
I’m not using at all Visual Composer for nothing, except the homepage.
As we know, speaking from the SEO perspective, category & tags are a little bit hard to optimize due to the limited options provide by WordPress itself, so, without a good speed optimization we do not do anything.
Thank you very much!
I know you’re working on your own pagebuilder, but for the moment we’re going to wait an estable version.
Be sure to resave permalinks after updates; clear transients with wp-optimize.
If using Yoast SEO, resave settings and disable removing of stop words.
Might help some with this issue.
after enabling JS & CSS Script Optimizer Options mega menu not working, now disabled and started working fine, how can i make working mega menu after enabling the plug in,
Hello football5,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Please notice that this is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
a) see the theme docs on how to speed up your site
** note links to documentation on this page / right side on desktop >>>
https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/
b) see the various other tutorials in the tutorials > DIY > best of forum section
c) do some of the fixes for your site outlined on GTmetrix.com — only YOU can optimize your hosting/WordPress setup to run at best speed.
((( I don’t work here))
@Masood Faruki
no, the missing style issue on install is from YOU trying to install the wrong zip file — this happens when trying to install theme from the “all files” zip vs just the “theme zip”. See the docs on how to install theme properly, or ask for help. You should start your own topic for install issues you might be having unrelated to another person’s issue.
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A great trick I do after each theme update which really helps is
a) resave permalinks
b) use wp-optimize plugin to clear ‘transients’
c) log out of website; close browser.
d) launch browser; clear history;
e) go to home page and hit f5 again anyway to clear cache.
I’ve run into this a couple of times especially with newer versions of PHP running opcache on server for php stuff, separate from any other caching going on.
Hello erickafram08,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Please notice that this is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Please notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hey Andrel
It worked well. The plugin that was word wrapping my menu is called Autoptimize, from Frank Goossens. It optimize the CSS and JavaScript code.
Well, it is gone.
Thanks!
I have some issues with some files on my site. It is making it load very slowly even after adding a CDN. Here is a list of issues found on GTMetrix. The google font is taking nearly 3 secs to load and i have no clue where that is based or how to fix it aswell. Please help!
Some images are taking a few secs to load aswell even with a CDN and being optimized.
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Delete VC via FTP; do clean install of VC via FTP.
Clear cache on site (if used) and in browser.
Resave permalinks from WP settings panel.
Clear all transients with wp-optimize plugin.
Good luck!
Hello aliqayyum,
1)Please try to clear all your caches, purge CDN files if you are using the CDN system, empty your server cache (if you do not have any access to do it, please request this to your hosting provider) and then test it again and check the results.
2)Try the code below and place it in Theme panel->Custom CSS area.
The code is ->
.td-g-rec-id-content_top{
float: left;
margin-right: 15px;
}
The result -> http://screencast.com/t/Q4olOZWxYyN
3)Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Please notice that this is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Please notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
Lots of factors; speed of test connection, number of images, site optimization, mix of CDN, or custom server (10mb, 100mb or 1GB connection), https with or without http/2 support, mod_pagespeed, etc.
Speed of “theme” not relevant in context of “speed of optimized site using theme.”
Just a comment, I don’t work here 🙂
Nope. You should only have *one* h1 tag on your home page, which would normally be something for SEO that is static like a block of info about your publication. H3 is most often used for headlines on news pages as they are not sticky, meaning if you have 20 items on home page, then 20 new items post, then the other 20 drop off home page and are no longer there, so have zero “long tail” value for SEO for exact phrase matching.
h1 and h2 tags most commonly used for static content in relation to the actual article/news item or page, not the other content linking to it. So, h1 for a title, h2 for a sub-head; h3 for supplemental headlines which are more indicative of a section head, than simple bolded text items.
Welcome to SEO 🙂
Google does not necessarily provide more “juice” to something with h2 or h3 tag on your home page. Almost everytihng other than h1 is pretty much presentational.
So you can use h3 tags on your mid-story sub-titles on an article while h2 might be used for main story sub-title. H1 for main title.
Only you can optimize your site for SEO; theme can’t do it for you. So, yes, adding h1 and h2 tags to your home page with static information is useful. Not so much with transitory items. You can of course make any heads for sections as h2 using blocks in the composer (e.g., “Book Reviews” as h2 sub head above a block of book review items…). Totally up to you.
