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hi guys

thanks for your reply.

But unfortunately it doesn’t help me. i have daily news-updates on the site. so the last 4 news should be shown on the slider and the older news right below the slider. both of them have the same category “news”. therefore i have no possibility to separate the categories.

thanks
alex

Hi … I’m away from my home. Would you please wash my car for me, also ? It’s in the driveway. I can give you the key to the shed where I keep the hose and towels.

Zeus…
I also updated my expiration headers (see the pagespeed thread sticky top of forum) for htaccess to add more time for .js files due to the wordpress comments js file normally expiring in less than one week. I had it set at 2.6 days; Google now wants a week and will generate error on pagespeed insights for that one pesky file!

Hi, Anna
we’re running the latest “stable” release from November. The current January version is an “edge” (or “Beta”) which is on different development track. So, hoping the stable version will be updated end of January with some of the new fixes.

Since our main sites are mission critical we dialed back all the filters server wide to just the CoreFilters minus one lazy load element (have an over-ride to lazy load images on page load and not on scroll as that did weird things).

Originally tested with a “full set of best choices for WordPress” but we’d see that something caused conflicts and so doing side by side speed of loading tests, most of the time the pages would load more quickly with mod_pagespeed OFF, which didn’t make much sense.

Now, I’m testing the filters sort of case by case, then testing the “mix” of elements (e.g., fonts, adsense, grvatar, addthis/social buttons) with each option, trying to use as few as possible to not actually slow things down (meaning why have mod_pagespeed do something which doesn’t actually need to be done — 10 extra filters adds some latency somewhere, although if done pre-cache not a biggie “in theory”).

It’s also worth noting I hacked the addthis plugin to add the “async” method which is not built-in (stupidly); which can be found in one of my other posts.

The adventure continues on Saturday!

Also note that some “master filter” settings enable sub filters, as so:

ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images (apache)
in the configuration file. This is equivalent to enabling
inline_images, recompress_images, convert_png_to_jpeg, and resize_images.

And then recompress_images is a master ‘group’ filter set for the following:
This is also a group filter, and is equivalent to enabling: convert_gif_to_png, convert_jpeg_to_progressive, jpeg_subsampling, recompress_jpeg, recompress_png, recompress_webp, strip_image_color_profile, and strip_image_meta_data.

So as you can see there are
master group >> sub master group >> end filters part of sub-master group

hence the phrase “tricky” 🙂

I am testing the master groups first to find what doesn’t work; then sub-groups, then down to specialized sub-filter settings.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

HI, Radu
thanks for update. I knew you were working on the fonts thing for next “edition.”

For the Google plugin, I don’t think we would end up using it but it was announced the other day. I think your solution is awesome (once the top bar alignment thing is sorted).

Keep up the great work!

CS

There’s a spanish translation for the elements in visual composer, however it doesn’t seem to work. Elements still appear in english.

Newspaper/wpbakery/js_composer/locale/js_composer-es_ES.po

1. shouldn’t it load the translation domain somewhere?
what should I do?

2. I separately bought visual composer, is it possible to update it (since the downloaded version loads language fine)

hello,
if you have an older version of the theme please update to the latest version.
also disable all pluggins and see if it works, could be a conflict between pluggins.

can you please give us more details, your site link, also if it possible wp-admin access

we will try to take a look.

Thanks for you message.
Radu A.

hello,
about the counter plugin, please update the plugin to the latest version

for the player:
http://screencast.com/t/zu8f9V9EK
the palyer is as wide as the page but on the left side it (the player) has a chat room
if there is a way to make only the viewable bigger, it should be from the player.

I saw that you fixed your problem with the logo.

Thanks for you message.
Radu A.

Pagespeed mod test update: settings 0.4

Google Pagespeed 93/100 on main GPS Insight
page: http://ga-ga.com/1262/fiction-area-code-666-part-18-del-arton/
– google adsense – no ads for test
– addthis plugin replace social media buttons with single button ‘on’
– gravatar loaded dynamic over network for author box

todo:
1) load author image locally either with plugin, or add field to functions.php to add new user datafield, then call user meta for the field instead of gravatar code.
2) reduce server response time — typical is 0.32 seconds (320msec) up to 4 seconds; but Google now saying <200msec is the “ideal” — not sure tradeoff on optimizations for everything else; but I did see a post the other day about server tweaks to speed up “first byte” load of WordPress pages to deal with that so called “error.” Solving this would negate the penalize from Google AdSense being on.
3) super annoying “reder blocking” CSS almost “quashed” and ironically the error is from mod_pagespeed trying to fix:

Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:http://ga-ga.com/…ootstrap.css.pagespeed.cf.n0P3fhMJJz.css
http://ga-ga.com/…/A.style.css.pagespeed.cf.JAYrGYtjNo.css

– so in typical GPS fashion, one Google product complains about another Google product which is designed to fix the complaint in first place (ARGH!). This one will take some playing around with the “filters” which is where I got stuck this past weekend.

Hope this is entertaining somebody 🙂

and I forgot to mention here is the code I’m using in my htaccess file for mod_pagespeed testing, in addition to CoreFilters being on from the main .conf file at server level, eventually this would be a <directory> directive in the .conf and not in htaccess for better optimization.

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
ModPagespeed on
ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace
ModPagespeedEnableFilters move_css_to_head
ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_css
ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters insert_dns_prefetch
</IfModule>

CHANGE to my prior htaccess code for expire headers to solve one javascript file for comments in the core wp code:

AddType text/javascript .js

# BEGIN Expire headers
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 5 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 600 seconds"
</IfModule>

I also added these to the end of the htaccess after the cache control headers, to solve the ETag problem and also the damn spammers hitting my ping script.

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header unset ETag
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch 403 /xmlrpc.php
</IfModule>

AS EVER: do not make changes to any of your files/settings unless you have backups done.
THis is all experimental at this point; when I have a solid Apache-friendly setup, I will share all the settings in all the files for those interested in this discussion. 🙂

Cheers,
Christopher Simmons
member: PRSA, ASCAP
CEO, Neotrope®
Torrance, CA, USA
(please don’t call me asking for help on anything at this point in time; I will resume my consulting biz once I have my own ducks back in a row, as it were!)

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

SOLVED
I had to update my webconfig file at the server with the following:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name=”WordPress Rule 1″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^index\.php$” ignoreCase=”false” />
<action type=”None” />
</rule>
<rule name=”WordPress Rule 2″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)” ignoreCase=”false” />
<action type=”Rewrite” url=”wp-includes/ms-files.php?file={R:2}” appendQueryString=”false” />
</rule>
<rule name=”WordPress Rule 3″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$” ignoreCase=”false” />
<action type=”Redirect” url=”{R:1}wp-admin/” redirectType=”Permanent” />
</rule>
<rule name=”WordPress Rule 4″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^” ignoreCase=”false” />
<conditions logicalGrouping=”MatchAny”>
<add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsFile” ignoreCase=”false” />
<add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsDirectory” ignoreCase=”false” />
</conditions>
<action type=”None” />
</rule>
<rule name=”WordPress Rule 5″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)” ignoreCase=”false” />
<action type=”Rewrite” url=”{R:2}” />
</rule>
<rule name=”WordPress Rule 6″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$” ignoreCase=”false” />
<action type=”Rewrite” url=”{R:2}” />
</rule>
<rule name=”WordPress Rule 7″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”.” ignoreCase=”false” />
<action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php” />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Yep. I did the same thing 🙂

Note to all, we found it’s better to manually minify the main style.css file each update.

HERE IS HOW TO:

The easy way to minify your main style.css file, is to
1) in your theme folder, make a copy of the style.css file (rename style-bak.css or whatever)
2) take the style.css file and open in a text editor (NOT a word processor), like Notepad or TextPad on Windows, or similar.
3) copy and paste all the text from the file into a minifcation online tool like one of these:
– http://refresh-sf.com/yui/
– http://cssminifier.com/
4) copy the “minified” output into a new style.css file
5) upload via FTP to over-write the style.css file in your theme root

Now when you run PageSpeed Insights it won’t bug you anymore. I do this and works just fine.

r1kay
to clarify, mod_pagespeed is not a WordPress plugin, but is used at the server level and is being used by many “speed oriented” web hosting providers now, including many that specialize in WP hosting specifically (and larger folk like GoDaddy, etc.).

The easy way to minify your main style.css file, is to
1) in your theme folder, make a copy of the style.css file (rename style-bak.css or whatever)
2) take the style.css file and open in a text editor (NOT a word processor), like Notepad or TextPad on Windows, or similar.
3) copy and paste all the text from the file into a minifcation online tool like one of these:
– http://refresh-sf.com/yui/
– http://cssminifier.com/
4) copy the “minified” output into a new style.css file
5) upload via FTP to over-write the style.css file in your theme root

Now when you run PageSpeed Insights it won’t bug you anymore. I do this and works just fine.

If none of that is remotely possible for you to do, then don’t stress over it. You only gain maybe a point for doing this, along with a couple of other things. Image optimization is far more important, and limiting use of plugins which “dial out” from your site to load things on the page beyond your content (social media “counters” for instance – plain buttons load faster).

You likely haven’t seen mention of mod_pagespeed as you have not been looking through the “pinned” topic at top of forum on “Pagespeed” issues.

Note when minifying the css file, it will save 20% of the space, but it doesn’t speed anything up by 20% or improve rating by 20%. If it saves more than 20kb then it’s worth it. If it saves less than 20kb may not be worth the trouble.

ALSO: be aware each time you update theme you will need to re-compress the style sheet using one of the tools above.

Hope that helped.