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Hello
Thank you for taking the time help me out, yes the host checked, and he told me it is this code that i posted in my first post, i hoped maybe who made this theme could help me even a little be nice, like what to remove from the template, or optimize the code so CPU will not over load.
Thanks !!
Hi,
I’m starting to make an effort to optimize the site for PageSpeed, and couple of minor things:
test page
http://ga-ga.com/1890/book-review-people-deserve-a-fighting-chance/
1) is it possible to setup the use of the optimum thumbnails for this kind of page layout? Basically actually using 200×150 images vs resizing them? I currently have 200×150 as one of the 3 sizes in the wp admin > media > small/medium/large, however the page blocks on posts don’t actually use the 200×150 size thumbs.
(to correct listed as “error” for pagespeed)
resized in HTML or CSS from 238×178 to 200×150. Serving a scaled image could save 1.5KiB (30% reduction).
2) can we set pages and posts and categories, etc., to NOT load the visual composer CSS since it’s only used on home page?
/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/assets/css/js_composer.css
3) getting this issue, which I don’t recall seeing before when doing past optimizations, and not sure if something in ad module is loading something via BOTH http and https, or if this is strictly an issue on Google ad side of the load:
The following resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs. Serve these resources from a consistent URL to save 1 request(s) and 9.2KiB.
•http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/bg/-GgkI9xeVCztemwrHKdpGDGZZ7feSdeVfZSSdFvmVw8.js
•https://www.google.com/js/bg/-GgkI9xeVCztemwrHKdpGDGZZ7feSdeVfZSSdFvmVw8.js
4) best way to defer parsing of this javascript
•http://ga-ga.com/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.min.js (622B)
•http://ga-ga.com/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js (533B)
Thanks folks 🙂
Heh. Yeah, well, that would make the difference. 15,000 posts on one site, vs 692,000 is totally different thing. Even if we have 20 sites, it’s still different animal. Our main big site has 15 years of content, but we use custom CMS to spit out static pages so the dbase is only queried when building static pages so the content that doesn’t change doesn’t do dbase queries all the time (good ol server side includes and shtml).
The amount of posts might be the issue. Still, WordPress is running some big sites like TIME magazine, etc.
I would imagine you’ve already done all sorts of optimizations for RAM (e.g., 16GB to your domain or more), all the modern php optimizers, and limit the number of query objects per page, and/or implement things like archival content has smaller payloads per page (e.g., items more than x years older use lighter template, etc.).
However, I’d likely go ahead and try the P3 profiler if you’re not already using something like that just to double check what is generating the most queries beyond the on-page theme stuff.
Newsmag is more fixed width, while Newspaper is more wide screen. Both from TagDiv.
Obviously setting up simpler things on page like not using megamenu on posts, not doing extra queries in footer, using fewer images on page, etc. can cut down on number of dbase queries.
Also optimize the wp-config.php file if not already done to reduce {get directory name} kind of queries.
FYI, for those curious –
couple of things I’ve noticed
1) ad loading seems to slow down page more than it used to;
2) apparently it is better to use the long https://?= URL for embedding YouTube videos on post vs the http shortcode since it’s a redirect.
3) optimizing font loading is still a huge hairy deal to deal with, and to optimize site one must consider adding font calls to style.css at end and remove from the functions and/or the speedbooster functions file (depending on theme version); theme uses 3 Google fonts by default
4) running 3 ads on page does slow it down vs 2
this page has GTMetrix score of “95” without fully optimizing font loading, and need to remove the redundant images being loaded in footer for latest items.
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/ga-ga.com/drtVe8gF
for
http://ga-ga.com/1890/book-review-people-deserve-a-fighting-chance/
still, page load time is slower than it could be.
When I optimized the crap out of Newspaper a few months back; I optimized font loading, and also had only text ads loading from AdSense. Funky thing with that is Google now loads unoptimized favicons with some text ads which will fail the image dimensions test, and nothing can be done about it. Full stop.
So, I’ll be playing with this a bit more this month, as I did with the Newspaper theme a year ago, and may have a little “insane optimization” guide for y’all.
Like adding expiration headers for the icon font to the htaccess file 😉
(Note: above page is *not* using a WP caching plugin of any kind, btw.)
Your average score is 93 for PageSpeed
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ohall.com.br/P198SYOf
Looks like you need to better optimize images, add better expiration headers, deal with some issues of duplicate elements loading from 2 different locations, etc.
I have tried wp-optimize and doesn’t change anything… but decreasing the number of categories and tags improves a lot of. After letting it run for a while, the admin panel loads fine. But I have to press the “continue” button five or six times. So i think this is not a bug, only performance issues.
I think the admin panel shouldn’t load all data at the same time, and paginate the “categories” tab.
Thanks!
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Alvaro Guzman.
We don’t have this issue with the theme panel in Chrome Mac, iOS, Win7/64, or Firefox/Mac.
Using wp-optimize regularly can keep the dbase cleaned of extraneous junk.
Doing clean up of old tables from bad plugins that don’t clean house, can help too.
After implementing Newspaper theme and adding all of the suggested optimization, I am facing with constant site/database crashes due to max_questions overload (current value: 50000). I have contacted my hoster asking if they can increase that limit, and they suggested to ask theme developer to optimize scripts by adding the code mysql_close() to close all open database connections.
Any hope/idea if this problem can be solved?
Revolution Slider is a slider. You can Google that for all the info.
http://revolution.themepunch.com/
td-speed-booster helps to speed up/optimize the theme elements being loaded such as CSS and JS code.
Thank you!
and, I have a problem mobile visual like this.

big slidebar image isn’t optimize for mobile.
please help me!
Hello,
I hope you had a nice christmas. I took the time and implemented adsense to my site. However, I stumbled over a problem with the ads, in particular how they are displayed on iPads in portrait mode. I am talking about the header ad banner. My theme is configured with header style 1 (logo + ad) + menu.
1. When I disable the ads on phone for the Header ad as your recommend, the header ad will not just be deacivated on phone but also on the iPad in vertical (portrait) mode. Landscape works fine. The portrait configuration however does not seem to have an effect. Why does this happen?
2. The same with sizes. When I adjust AdSense sizes for Portrait, the customization has no effect on the ads displayed on the iPad. Just the option for Phone does adjust the size. The default configuration (with activated ads on phone which we should not do) displays too small ad banners unlike your newspaper demo with 468×60 pixel. I assume the size is optimized for phones which have different default sizes than the iPad.
What I need to do is have header ads properly scaled and displayed in portrait mode on iPads while header ads on phones are deactivated. Am I mistaken with my configuration or do I fight with a bug? What can I do to fix it?
Thanks for looking into this and have a nice day!
I have been running wpsmush on my website but i keep noticing images aren’t being optimized. Thing is, when i send the smush option (to optimize all images), I get a count of 1700 images. But on the ftp i can count over 9,000. It seems at plain sight as though the original image is being optimized, but the other versions generated by the theme aren’t (the thumbnails, and slider and box sizes). Anyone else noticing this?
We’re running Apache/CentOS; but just as an FYI, if WordPress works on your NGINX setup, the theme will work; as a theme is only a collection of style sheets that extend the built-in functions of WordPress.
Typically most developers optimize their site for NGINX using the default theme (e.g., twenty-fourteen), such as issues for Google PageSpeed; then worry about the design as secondary process once the initial WP setup is fully functional.
Have no idea. You should contact your hosting provider and make sure you have the gzip/deflate or comparable running as well as figure out how to add expiration headers. There is some help for that on the GTMetrix site. My only experience the past 20 years has been with Apache based Linux systems, so can’t help with Windows setup at all.
You might look online for some help on how to optimize a Windows server platform for WordPress, as your issues are with WordPress optimization in general and NOT with the theme. Meaning, you need to spend the time to educate yourself on optimizing your system for running WordPress at all before you even worry about the theme setup or design issues.
Hi thanks for a great theme! I recently setup our site with MaxCDN and integrated into W3TC plugin. I read thru your documentation carefully — making sure to only use for page cache, not JS minify or anything else.
After implementing the CDN, I next tried using a plugin called Imsanity to optimize all my images. Somehow once I regenerated all my images, it seems to have broke my CSS. Especially the woocommerce product image sizes.
Our site is http://www.askdrmaxwell.com
Can you please take a look at the homepage (towards the bottom) there are 5 products, and they are supposed to be all next to each other in one row.. however now the spacing is all jumbled and not right.
Also on any individual product page, the images are now much too large! I’ve tried to set woocommerce product size in woocommerce settings.. and then use regenerate thumbnails plugin, and also reset cache. However, this does not fix the issue.
Can you please help?
Thanks again!
James
Yes, I am seeing the same issue, however note I am not YET running the latest version of theme; I do have the tagdiv speed booster plugin running, 3 adsense spots, and am running mod_pagespeed … however I can also confirm the rich snippets were verified working with Newspaper theme. I had not yet gotten to testing this element, frankly, with Newsmag. But, I can confirm I have the same issue as looking at a review page in Gogole SERPS does NOT show the rating. Oddly the rich testing tool is also saying my Google+ page is not a publisher, even though the sites are properly linked and the Google+ publisher page is correct; so there *is* some oddball thing there someplace.
(I suspect the Google+ publisher thing may be due to the phase out of the author element; however since the page is properly linked from the +NeotropeNet/posts G+ page in the meta source; not sure why that shows up.)
The only plugins I’m using are Yoast SEO, two image plugins for resizing, wp-optimize, auto hyperlinks/external links no-follow, and nothing I can see which would impact the snippets. However, I will revisit this once I update the theme to latest version. I was actually waiting to see if there was any dot-revision to the 1.3 iteration before I did that 🙂
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simchris.
your internet connection might be too slow and you have heavy content on home page. try to optimize it.
You can look at one of my sites “in progress” if you wish:
http://ga-ga.com/
Still playing with logo (need to add word “advertisement” next to the line top of page).
Still converting some of the first pages which had images “placed” in the post, to use only the featured image.
Still importing content from one of our other sites which is being retired.
Upshot – not yet done.
Should officially re-launch Jan 2015. Yay. 🙂
(NOTE: I started to do the site with Newspaper before switching to Newsmag, so I have not yet fully optimized the theme for “maximum PageSpeed” as I had done with Newspaper.)
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simchris.
@shoutershub
you should try to download the fonts optimized by @handiso and see if that solves your problem. “Most” people don’t see that issue, only some, and it’s not clear why, regardless of browser/platform.
Hello team,
My website is http://www.movzio.com can you please tell me how i improve my website pagespeed? i’m using microsoft cloud azure? how i optimize properly currently the page size is 3.3 MB so i can reduce it and load fast??
-Mosam
Quick note for those who have read all my posts the past 12 months (time flies!) for my optimization on using NEWSPAPER theme. Note for any links to my ga-ga.com I’ve put in my posts, I have moved that site to now using NEWSMAG, also from TagDiv, as for this particular project site (launching finally Jan 2015!), I found NewsMag fit the project better. So, obviously it’s under construction again, and not fully optimized so testing any of my example page links will be different in pagespeed scores, than what they were up until a month ago.
Only mentioning this, as it came up in another thread.
happy holidays 2014 ! 🙂
Yes, we switched Ga-ga.com to Newsmag … and still playing with it in my “spare time” … I have not fully optimized the new theme/site combo, so the old scores and such are not yet “up to speed” as it were.
For the site, we found that it worked a little better to have more of a “magazine” style layout (borders) than the newspaper layout, partly because we have some long form book serials/fiction, and .. well, anyway, YES… Ga-Ga.com is now running on NEWSMAG from the savvy folk at TagDiv. So, Newsmag was the right choice for this particular site, hence the switcheroo.
I have not yet
1) optimized the gravatar local caching
2) optimized fonts
3) minified the main CSS file manually
4) finished the home page; and menus.
5) fixed the logos, as I’m playing with changing logo design since it’s not technically a “done” website; the content there now is “mostly” stuff we’re rescuing from some older sites which are being retired and we’re keeping the good stuff for the new site, which will launch Jan.2015.
6) various other minor tweaks
Work in progress as of 12/12/14. 🙂
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simchris.
Yes, you need to optimize your server and site to get a decent score. The theme is optimized, but it can’t fix your web server or edit your site files for you.
Read through the GTMetrix info to see what you need to fix.
Read through the speed help info to see what you need to implement.
Do you have gzip/deflate enabled on your server?
Do you have expiration headers set properly from htaccess or similar?
Do you have optimized images and thumbnails?
Hi can you check my site
i’ve a big problem with speedtest
and in mobile version the logo doesn’t appears.
Can you help me?
This is some of file td-speed-booster.php
/**
* Move the style only on newspaper
* @todo move the style also on newsmag after we fix all the issues
*/
if ($this->is_ie === false and TD_THEME_NAME == ‘Newspaper’) {
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-bootstrap’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-theme’); //this is the main style of the theme, it depends on td-bootstrap to load
}
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘google-font-rest’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘woocommerce_frontend_styles’);
//jetpack lost styles
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘jetpack-subscriptions’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘jetpack-widgets’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘easy-modal-site’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘tm_clicktotweet’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘contact-form-7’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘optinforms-stylesheet’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘rs-plugin-settings’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘teeoptimize-plugin-styles’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘boxes’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘google-font-rest’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-bootstrap’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-theme’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘js_composer_front’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘js_composer_custom_css’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-bootstrap’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘optimizepress-fancybox’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘optimizepress-wp’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘optimizepress-default’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘flare’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘flare-oswald-font’);
/**
* move javascript to footer
*/
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘themepunchtools’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘revmin’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘teeoptimize-plugin-script’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘optimizepress-loadScript’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘optimizepress-noconflict-js’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘optimizepress-loadScript’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘optimizepress-placeholder’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘optimizepress-fancybox’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘admin-bar’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘easy-modal-site’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘contact-form-7’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘jquery’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘placeholder’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘tp-tools’);
}