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Try
a) disabling lazy loading option in theme settings
b) consider using the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin
c) clear caching
d) clear transients with wp-optimize

not sure it will solve it, but that is usually issue

Welll…..

a) if you use the speed booster framework, you would put the code into the Speed Booster plugin settings per the docs for that and the example from Lucien; *and* likely any custom css into your style.css and not in theme panel; and ideally NOT use child theme, to mimize any flash of unstyled text

b) if you’re doing custom hacking of your site, you would put any functions for de/enqueue into the functions.php where all such WordPress “actions” go; then you’d manually put your style.css link in footer. The WordPress codex has good tutorial on how “enqueuing” (adding to queue) works in WP.

c) You would then use the critical CSS generator found in my thread, to put the above the fold CSS “inline” in the header.php file. This loads only the needed CSS for above the fold to load with page — no render blocking of CSS — and then the rest loads with remainder of page. — Trial and error on this stuff.

These efforts are toward solving the pesky lower score on Google PageSpeed Insights for mobile “above the fold render blocking…”

This is a bit “advanced” stuff most folks won’t tackle. But if you’ve got everything ELSE as optimized as possible, this is kind of the LAST thing to do.

And frankly, if you’re using the AMP system for mobile, for a lot of folks, this will be a non issue as Google products will be loading the AMP version vs the responsive mobile version anyway.

So, one could argue if you have a desktop score of 92 or higher, and you’re running “AMP” on your site for posts, you likely don’t need to stress as much as before on the mobile score on Google’s direct testing speed tool. 🙂

( rant over . . . ) 🙂

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Hi Andrei L.,

I tried your change, but it does not work well.

But you can not optimize your website in mobile version, at least 85/90% according to Google Page Speed.

As mobile today is the 60/70% of website traffic.

I await your news about

Have you run wpoptimize to clean up your dbase a bit? You can also have your webhost do command line duplication of dbase if phpadmin timing out. You may also be able to extend application runtime and allowed filesize in php.ini and or host panel settings.

Good first start to making backup.
Theme update does not impact dbase. Uodate via ftp.
Good idea to export your theme settings first.

My site is hosted on Knownhost dedicated Server. How can I know whether Gzip compression is enabled or not. What all can I ask my webhost to best optimize my WordPress blog for fast and speed. Additionally I use Cloudflare $20 monthly plan for improving speed of the site. The site is technosamigos.com.

Wow! that’s a whole lot of info! Thanks, Chris, and wait for my next blog on “great tips to optimize your website” and you may find there all your stuff copy-pasted! 🙂 (joking). Sure, your voluntary service here is useful.

Don’t suppose you’d be willing to switch on the amp plugin, and try the hook in functions to see if it does add it to /amp/ template via the hook provided? And see if it increments.

I’m on the front lines with this, but you’re going to get snowball of queries about this since Google will start pushing ALL its mobile traffic on compatible devices to the AMP version, and so the “counter” will not increment normally with TD themes, and some will think their audience dropped (although one can tell from the transients going way up that AMP versions being served).

I’m basically looking for working code — perhaps you’d consider adding an “tagdiv amp glue” plugin which adds the code into just the amp version via the provided amp header hook — this doesn’t need ajax since amp doesn’t use javascript.

You’re going to get a ton of queries for this — since amp is intended for news sites primarily, as are the themes — and to put it bluntly — this will actually be a superior selling point on ThemeForest to have “AMP counter support” — since almost nobody has noticed yet that their counters aren’t incrementing, but they soon will and freak out (I kind of did this the other day on the CaliforniaNewswire site when I said “hey, how come the audience dropped 70% for some of the articles …” then noticed the 9,000+ transients from the amp pages when using wp-optimize, and wen’t “oh … duh….” yeah “amp views not counted by the counter” —

Upshot – the amp view is being served as much as the mobile responsive views in the googleverse now on some of my sites, counter not incrementing. Of course, I use server side reporting (eg ‘webalizer’ etc) to know “actual” site audience views — but now the counter on all stories waaaaaaaaay down.

So – expect a bunch of newbie complaints about audience drop off once they enable AMP …. not understanding what is actually going on there.

If you can wrangle some working code on your side, for me to test – you’ll save yourself a billion support tickets for both themes as this continues to roll out !

Hi

Have you followed the instructions from our page-speed documentation and the the server is still overloaded? Please provide your site url so I can take a closer look.
Note that w can’t offer page-speed customiztions, we can only guide you in the right direction but you are the one that has to do the adjustments. The theme is tested and optimized to work an every server but there are many aspects which can influence your page speed. On the forum are many topics regarding the page sped so you can do a search for more details about this.

Thanks!

For tech heads … by massively hacked … we are

– changing wp-content to /assets/
– changing author slug to profile
– removing /category/ slug
– hacked theme name and dependencies to our local branding
– local loading vs CDN of font awesome and jquery for optimzation/opcache in prep for https/2 update to server
– highly compressed html, js, css
– highly optimized wp-config.php file
– if single/ head removal of js/css only intended for home page
– locked down php disabling in core WP folders for security
– complete removal of all comment code
– complete removal of all XML-RPC code
– complete rewrite of local default search to load from paid Google Search Engine (GSE), including from URL search string and default WP search box
– local loading of author/client avatar, captured from gravatar but hosted locally and cached
– custom “more posts from author” function and placement
– custom breadcrumbs since our CMS is in sub-dir, main static site one level up for actual ‘home’
– custom author box to print as plug into after post meta to appear on AMP version of page including link to author/client site and top four socials (rel=nofollow and target blank)
– custom data fields with ACF5 Pro
– custom hook to our YOURLS install to pull in custom shortcode, drop into post meta, for sharing
– custom local functions, CSS, for social sharing buttons that grab YOURLS shortcode
– (and like etcetera)

so, you think you’re confused ? Welcome to my brain right now ! 🙂

What helps immensely is
a) make sure you change your site URL to https in the WP site setting (obviosuly)
b) add an explicit setting for the URL in the wp-config.php file for https (path to site)
c) use wp-optimize to clear all “transients” and clear all other cache
d) make sure you set up a site-wide 301 wildcard redirect in your htaccess so any request for http actually loads https version for “anything”

Any theme stuff should “pick up” the https setting if you put it into the wp-config.php file. (In theory.)

We did this in Nov 2014 and went through some of the same issues.

I’ve found that stuff like wp-optimize works better for simple “optimization” — but any REAL edits to dbase should be done via phpmyadmin on server, and learn to delete ONLY the table rows in the dbase that are causing bloat, such as from a former hit counter, or some funky old plugin polluting the database. Luckily lots of tutorials online for this, just a pain in the butt to “focus” on scannning through tables.

I did this recently for one of our 11 year old sites, where the dbase was just freaking huge, and there were some old things in there that the “bad plugins” didn’t gracefully remove on exit, or have option to scrub prior to deactivation.

Just a comment, since I was lurking here a little while 🙂

Hi,

Problem solved! The conflict was caused by a plugin, “Autooptimizer”.

Thanks!

Hi

We try to keep the code as clean and simple as possible but with every new feature added the code grows and it can be difficult to understand. At every update we try to optimize the code for best performance but this code somehow has left there.

Thanks!

Okay….
here’s one of my ‘top tips’ …

a) after you disable and remove js_composer
b) use wp-optimize and delete all ‘transients’
c) reinstall js_composer

Yes, you need to optimize your website for WordPress.

See the theme docs on “how to speed up your site” — and also, the “tutorials/DIY” and “best of forums” for addtional how to.

You should also check one of your post pages with GTMetrix.com as this will outline the stuff you need to optimize such as caching, time to live/expiration headers, gzip/deflate, image compression, etc.

Hi

The theme code was tested and optimized for best performance, we have a lot of clients and the theme works well on a large variety of hosts.
First please make sure that you use the recommended server configuration for Newspaper theme, you can check our documentation for more details: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-requirements-for-newsmag/
There are lots of factors that influence the site’s page-sped. I suggest you first try this without any other plugins active, leave just VC plugin active the check again. To improve the loading speed look the mysql query cache: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html we also use it on our demo.
Also you can use the speed booster to move the js and css at the bottom of the page, eliminate render-blocking, but not for all plugins. Check the System Status if the speed booster is active if you use other plugins than the tested ones. You can find some useful information regrading speed booster usage in this topic: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/speed-booster-questions/
Also you can read this guide, it may help – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/

Hope this help.
Thanks!

@Magistar
I don’t use a smushing plugin. I optimize my images prior to upload then change the compression level for thumbs per my tips in the first pages of the thread.

@virjik
if you’re using Jetpack, you have to remove the portion which turns off the XML-RPC stuff in the functions.php file, I believe. Also note that if using the Ajax counter, that might not work with some mobile devices if blocking certain javascript stuff. Dunno.