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thank you!

I did as you told me, but the color in the top has not changed. Another question, how can I display the date and time in the slide? see drawing

http://www.cataniaoggi.com/_/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/home.jpg

• This reply was modified 12 years by Calimero.

Hi, Radu
and so, I now say “d’oh” (per Homer Simpson).
That page should definitely be a sticky under a new topic
General Support: Page Speed (locked from posts by others perhaps?)

Otherwise you’re going to keep getting posts from folks over and over on this topic, primarily from non-developers, but also from folks just wanting the basic “tips.”

I think the async option in the 2.1 will help with ads, and also the option to use web safe fonts (e.g., Georgia, Arial/Helvetica, Trebuchet for body fonts) would help too.

Keep up the great work 🙂

another question.. for example now i have adsense code in the “middle third paragraph”…

how to insert my custom code in the same middle third position?

Just for a point of reference on our test site under development, with 1.7.2, and no caching or tagdiv/optimizer plugin enabled. This is neither a complaint, nor solution, just an indicator of another look at “speed” on a “typical” review article page online, based in U.S.

Test article page
http://ga-ga.com/785/discwatcher-watching-films-at-home-spring-2013-a-good-day-to-die-hard/

Google Page Speed = 96 / YSlow 73* (desktop; not showing mobile results)
Page load time: 6.46s
Total page size: 2.19MB
Total number of requests: 106
*NOTE: huge number of “errors” due to GOOGLE ads/cookies/etc. with embedded YouTube video and two AdSense ads (top/right) and social media crap. Unrelated to theme.
PAGE HAS: 3 large images in article; two content blocks right side with 3 thumbnails each (6 images) and the 2 related content items below story. Total 11 images plus gravatar, and 2 logos.

14 images, 2 ads, youtube video; Google Page Speed “96” — not too shabby!

Main issues have to do with Google elements, and social media stuff. One javascript file could be compressed; YSlow hates the @style load of CSS via child theme (sigh). Images could be slightly more compressed (option to set compression level via functions file?).

For those looking at Google Page Speed vs “load time” or “payload” … ALWAYS test your “page speed” with AdSense stuff removed or you will always get upset with any WP site ranking/rating/testing. In our case, the above “96” with Google Page Speed is pretty amazing, frankly. 6 second load time, not so much (anything over 4 sec would be considered “bad” these days), but caching plugin and CDN may help with that immensely. Yslow pretty much “demands” a CDN for top speed ranking.

Our goal is 3 sec. max time for a page like that (avg 2.6 sec would be acceptable based on how some of our other sites work) and if/when I get to that, I’ll share our method of optimization, if anybody will want to know.

— PLUGINS:
* all jetpack OFF
* WP-Optimize (speed up your DB by optimizing it!)
* Akismet with site license
* Limit Login Attempts (a must!)
* Regenerate thumbnails
* WordPress SEO by Yoast
* bare minimum tagdiv provided plugins (e.g., animated GIF resize)

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Just heads up to folks worrying about page speed, one great resource you may already be aware of is my friends at GT in Canada who built a neat testing tool years back, here: http://gtmetrix.com/

Paste in any page URL from your site, such as a post page, and it will tell your speed scores with Google PageSpeed and Yahoo Yslow – but also give you suggestions on various things you can fix; particularly useful is looking at number of calls for some plugins that “dial out” for avatars, social media, etc.

Keeping in mind that most WP themes may have too many calls to CSS files, and some plugins add more, which they shouldn’t (I’ve got one called ‘external links’ right now, and not using any of the CSS in the plugin, but he still loads another style sheet, not needed – having to bug him to remove that …) …

Anyway… it’s a good reference to some of the issues folks run into prior to optimization. YOu can create free account, then run a scan, and then when you tweak, you can come back and rerun test, and see improvements over time.

It’s more useful than running Google Page Speed insights, as it actually provides tips and exmaples on how to actually address each issue, along with explanations – which Google does in a roundabout or confusing way or not at all (meaning Google penalizes your page speed for their own AdSense content … which is hilarious … “you should fix this” – and it’s their content that needs fix!).

I’ve spent 3 months optimizing our main business site (not using WordPress) which has been an adventure; now starting on the WordPress stuff.

I can tell you from experience that Radu and co are doing an amazing job with optimization within the confines of the WordPress setup which inherently has numerous flaws for SEO, like the method for CSS redirect used in the child themes (WP core devs keep using a method not recommended by the rest of the universe … for example).

So, there is a *lot* going on with WP, which *no* theme maker can fully address, only tweak and you need to research common problems and workarounds for *ALL* WP based installs when concerned with Page Speed.

For instance, I do *NOT* use JetPack myself as it “phones home” all over the place and slows things down. SO, every little spinning widget and flashing light and cannon blasting all slow down the page. If you want the most speed with WP, you need to have the simplest layout possible, ala Newspaper, for this kind of site, and then optimize the heck out of all your images, minimize anything that calls out to other sites (like FB comments box), certain JetPack things, and anything that doesn’t run in async with javascript, and avoid plugins which add more CSS style sheets and can’t inherent code, or properly write custom CSS into the head INLINE, not as yet another external style sheet!

Just some suggestions, somebody may find useful as a WP user since 2005, and webdev since 1994.

I’ve got the custom block and module working. But I’ve run into another issue. I’m displaying sub categories and using the Load More button to load posts using Ajax. Except that when ajax loads more posts it’s not displaying them in the 4 column layout I’ve programmed into the custom block and module. I assume there is another file I have to modify to output the correct ajax?

Also, by any chance, will the Teaser Grid component of Visual Composer ever be supported?

Thanks for all of your help.

For 45 dollars I believe it is not only the developers task to help but the users should help each other also if they can.

But yes the developers should be there and be the foundations of the support.

I am still hoping they will help me with my problem its been 4 days
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/featured-video-and-dailymotion/

PS: I believe your theme is only blue because you have the caching on, if you want the caching on you have to edit in the css file, they have answered this in one of the forum threads. They said they will fix it
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-speed/#post-1265
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/theme-speed/#post-1348

It’s clear it’s a spammer.

Two things I wish you guys had in here:

– a better search under each forum

– a link for us, users, to see all our topics

The search is so important because right now we can search only from the frontpage of the Support page and it searches all your themes and plugins forum. I only want to search for info from the topic I’ve purchased.

I had lots of questions about theme configuration and possible hacks ang gave up on posting because it was urgent and you guys take a while to respond. Answers could be in here in other topics but your search is frustrating!

Also for me to see all my threads I have to go back to my email and click on the link…. it’s not nice.

If you guys want to check on my blog, looks so nice, makeupgeek.com.br

Thanks.

w3C cache does implement many of the tricks for optimizing your site. Note you can also do some of that yourself using your htaccess file and make sure you optimize the heck out of your featured images (mine are about 16-24kb max for 700×406). There are quite a few great articles out there on implementing some of the W3C stuff without using the plugin, if you only want to test bits of that. Also setting up an Amazon CDN (S3+cloudfront) and hosting your JS/CSS and fonts there will also speed up your site. You can’t entirely rely on the “theme” to manage your site optimization, as a bunch of that is related to hosting, optimization of images, and minimizing using plugins and fancy jetpack stuff (basically anything that calls out to another site slows yours …). Putting more than two ads on the page from AdSense really slows it down, using anything connected to facebook or twitter “on the page” slows it down. Etc.

Concerning ads: Another idea.
At least in germany we do have to add some notice to ads being such.
Maybe you could offer a css solution to mark ads as ads in the ads options.