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Check with GoDaddy support; they may not have that option activated. Remember their servers host thousands of sites PER server, so they have to limit certain features for anything using system resources.
Hmmm… GoDaddy seems to have removed the page in their support “what features from mod_pagespeed does GoDaddy support….” … not helpful.
When you look at your page source do you even see the mod_pagespeed code at bottom, and signal, etc. ?
You should contact GoDaddy, as mod_pagespeed might not work from sub-domain, or you may need to setup domain mapping in the config file which tells mod_pagespeed it can load stuff from subdomain of main domain.
see stack overflow item on this topic
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21617388/mod-pagespeed-with-multiple-domains-or-subdomains
and RTFM
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/domains#shard
🙂
I can do the optimization part @Chris but I fail when making it compressive. As you told earlier, godaddy supports mod_pagespeed. So I added a line in htacces to convert images to progressive but nothing happens. Even the url of the image doesn’t changes.
You likely have a conflict between the methods being used.
For example when I upload a 745×483 30kb file (size on server; actual size is 24kb); the resize plugin I’m using (to make “larger” images only) along with functions quality setting of “50”, the resulting 700×357 thumb is 23.57kb on server, 1074×483 is 38.25kb; 326×235 is 10.74kb. “Actual” sizes are lower (I’m looking via my ftp tool.)
For example, the orig. 745×483 image is 24.1kb, but 28kb on disk. 30kb on unix server.
I found smushit didn’t help me.
mod_pagespeed does make my images progressive once they are cached (meaning the images seen in the page source have the pagespeed modified file names).
The thumbnails are still not progressive !
Mod_pagespeed does nothing.
W3 and Speed Booster Pack are giving Newspaper a real speedboost! Watch this video:
You can download the settings that are used in this video and import them in your W3 configuration.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=26301609429109550551
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JBH.
Nice work! @mehedi
I had planned to do something like that for WP (for our WP sites, for same reason you did it) based on the work I did building that exact thing for our classic non-WP site … but ran out of time. Will try your plug when I circle back 🙂
(example of my version running on our business site; not available as WP plugin, but same idea: http://www.send2press.com/services/press-release-distribution.shtml)
Thanks for the shout out, too. I won’t be helping out any more this month beyond bug report/fixes which I’m concentrating on now.
I’m now dealing with implementation of mod_spdy with mod_pagespeed to allow site to run under SSL for Google’s new push for that (super annoying). I’ll have some info on that once we suffer all the inevitable calamities of doing something only 10 people seem to know how to do (sigh … ask your hosting co about mod_spdy and watch their head explode). 🙂
GREAT JOB!!!!
Hi,
I noticed you have theme version 4.2.1.
We had some issues regarding pagination in the previous version so you can updated the theme to it’a latest version (4.2.2) in which we have fixed this.
Make sure you make a backup at your current theme files in case something goes wrong you can revert.
Here is how you can manually update the theme: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/
Regarding the site’s speed, you can follow this guide and topic:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/pagespeed-guide/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
Thanks
Sorry, I don’t have any free time to help with plugin development. I’m just now starting to work on something requiring full attention the next month, so I won’t be helping out here anymore, except to report something interesting (as I did the other day in PageSpeed sticky), or to poke the team about a bug I ran into.
I’d likely start by checking the btn classes already in use by the theme in the main style.css and related css files/less files.
Or, make new classes like btn-mehedi.
My pleasure 🙂
You won’t be seeing much help (aka “free tech support”) from me for awhile again, due to the window of “working on one thing with lots of hurry up and wait” and now back to the “must concentrate 100%” stuff.
I will be popping in on any pagespeed stuff since I suffer that everyday in some form or another.
Hi,
I believe you have added the menus the wrong way, the top menu looks like in your case it’s where the header menu should be and the header menu it’s at the top where the top menu should be.
Switch the menus between them, should look better afterwards, also note that if you wanted to have the menus like this the top menu doesn’t support the menu as it is now.
Regarding the size of your site, check your site using PageSpeed Insights and note how you can optimize your site.
You could also read this topic about page speed: https://forum.tagdiv.com/pagespeed-guide/
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Indeed! Currently using EWWW to ensure themes folder is periodically optimized and it’s gotten rid of the PageSpeed notifications, but it would be great if the images came pre-optimized.
Okay… SOLUTION to the gravatar pagespeed issue with the crappy 5 min. time to live (expiry/caching).
I didn’t want to hack my functions again to make new user meta field, if there was plugin to do it, and finally found one that *works* with Newspaper and WP 3.9.2 to replace the author image from Gravtar, which raises optimization error on Google PageSpeed Insights, with this plugin:
Simple Local Avatars
http://10up.com/plugins/simple-local-avatars-wordpress/
also in the WP plugin repository on wordpress.org
Hi, folks
for the next update to theme can you properly compress/optimize/smush/crunch the default images used by theme such as the header/shadows ? These consistently come up in PageSpeed Insights as bloated.
e.g.,
Losslessly compressing /images/header/bg-shadow-top.png could save 854B (90% reduction).
Losslessly compressing /images/header/bg-shadow.png could save 843B (87% reduction).
Thanks. Sorry to be a pain about that 🙂
hi again,
which fonts are ok for turkish letters? “ışğçöü” I dont want them affect pagespeed. just the recommended ones.
I use default font for all contents and parts but some of them looks bad.
Hi, godaddy does support mod pagespeed and some filters, but you have to turn on via htaccess… See their help info on that… Which yiu are likely already reading
Just got to know that pagespeed is not installed on godaddy!
I think the rewrite images from my code in the pagespeed topic thread does it as part of the bundle. Meaning mod_pagespeed uses “levels” of control settings, where the top level (they call “group filter”) setting includes the 10 features below that.
I use this on Apache:
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
See:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filter-image-optimize
Actually there is top level group filter command (which I’m using), sub level group command, and then base commands (my terms not theirs); so a sub level group command like
ModPagespeedEnableFilters recompress_images
includes a number of base filters.
QUOTE:
This filter attempts to recompress image data and strip unnecessary metadata such as thumbnails. This is also a group filter, and is equivalent to enabling: convert_gif_to_png, convert_jpeg_to_progressive, convert_jpeg_to_webp, jpeg_subsampling, recompress_jpeg, recompress_png, recompress_webp, strip_image_color_profile, and strip_image_meta_data.
Again, these filters may be enabled or disabled individually:
ModPagespeedEnableFilters convert_jpeg_to_progressive
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simchris.
Chris the site was down for me too.
Can you please give the .htaccess code required for it? And also, is there any other way to do it on server without mod_pagespeed?
Thanks. 🙂
HI, I was posting a reply yesterday (Sat. 8/30) when I could no longer reach the forum via my ISP for some reason, or the site went down. Basically I hit submit and could no longer reach website all day night!
I had replied as the site died for me, that
” I used mod_pagespeed to make all our thumbs progressive. “
Yes!!! I did the same thing, and I do mention this in the early posts in the PageSpeed topic; but good luck slogging through all of that 😉
looks like one main thing for mobile you need to fix is the images
1) set the default compression in your functions.php file per my recommendations in the pagespeed topic (specify 60, since default with WP is 90)
2) regenerate thumbs once you do that to reduce all in size from core starting image you uploaded; but make sure you have backups if needed
3) make sure you use a plugin like smush.it or similar, although changing your default compression might do most of that for you
4) make sure the images you’re uploading to begin with are optimized, per my recommendations in the pagespeed topic — for example for the featured post image you would want to shoot for less than 40kb for the big 745 image, vs 100,300,kb or whatever. Some of mine are under 25kb. Start with quality factor of 25 in Photoshop with 0.2 blur, and see how it looks. Anything with lots of red needs higher to avoid distortion.
Set images to progressive not optimized when saving to web from image application; don’t embed meta data unless you must have copyright info in there for legal reasons.
If you wrangle the many many suggestion image compression issues for your mobile score it will help your rating as mobile is all about speed of stuff loading on page; and if you have 10 photos all twice the size they could be, that is your issue right there for most things! 🙂