- NewspaperWP Rocket and Newspaper Theme: Optimization Guide
- TutorialsFrom WPBakery to tagDiv Composer
- NewspaperNewspaper Theme Support
- NewspaperNewspaper theme documentation
- NewspaperWeather Shortcode
- NewspaperCloudflare (CDN)
- NewspaperBest Of Forums
- TutorialsSystem status parameters guide
- NewsmagWhatâs included in Newsmag theme package
- NewsmagRequirements for Newsmag
- NewsmagNewsmag documentation
- Thumbnails vs. Featured image size
- NewspaperThumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks
- NewspaperRequirements for Newspaper
- NewspaperHow to Make the Site Faster
I am working on speeding up my site but my host is saying this is slowing down the site:
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) WHERE 1=1 AND ( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (6,7,8,2355,4974,4975,4976,4977) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = ‘post’ AND ((wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’)) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5
Source:
/nas/wp/www/cluster-40360/websitename/wp-content/themes/themename/includes/wp_booster/td_data_source.php:284
Backtrace:
require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), include(‘/themes/themename/page.php’), get_header, locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/themename/header.php’), td_api_header_style::_helper_show_header, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/themename/parts/header/header-style-9.php’), locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/themename/parts/header/header-menu.php’), wp_nav_menu, apply_filters(‘wp_nav_menu_objects’), call_user_func_array, td_menu->hook_wp_nav_menu_objects, td_block_mega_menu->render, td_block->render, td_data_source::get_wp_query, WP_Query->__construct, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts
and
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) WHERE 1=1 AND ( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (6,7,8,2355,4974,4975,4976,4977) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = ‘post’ AND ((wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’)) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5
Source:
/nas/wp/www/cluster-40360/websitename/wp-content/themes/themename/includes/wp_booster/td_data_source.php:284
Backtrace:
require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), include(‘/themes/themename/page.php’), get_header, locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/themename/header.php’), td_api_header_style::_helper_show_header, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/themename/parts/header/header-style-9.php’), locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘/themes/themename/parts/header/header-menu.php’), wp_nav_menu, apply_filters(‘wp_nav_menu_objects’), call_user_func_array, td_menu->hook_wp_nav_menu_objects, td_block_mega_menu->render, td_block->render, td_data_source::get_wp_query, WP_Query->__construct, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts
Suggestions?
Hi! After i was done with theme customization and plugin search and setting up, I’v encountered one major problem, page speed with google speed test is 30/100 on desktop and ~20/100 for mobile version.
This is website url for now (testing domain)
http://twist.purespace.eu/
Can anyone help me get this speed up?
I’v instaled w3 cache and tagDiv speed plugin, they are live at the moment. Thanks in advance!
hi, every time i get a surge of traffic, my site becomes crazy slow, especially on mobile devices. im running a 32gb ram server and confirmed with my web hoster that none of my ressources are even close of being used. i tried using google speed test for my site newswatch28.com, i get many errors: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewswatch28.com%2F&tab=mobile
i have the td booster pack plugin enabled. im also running w3 total cache plugin with page cache and browser cache enabled.
for Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content: i tried following https://forum.tagdiv.com/page-speed-guide/
i pasted the code in my functions.php removed it got all my files ids that i need to add to the speed booster pack plugin php file:
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘easy-social-share-buttons’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘contact-form-7’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘google-font-rest’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘js_composer_front’);
$this->move_style_to_footer(‘td-theme’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘contact-form-7’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘td-site-min’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘comment-reply’);
$this->move_js_to_footer(‘jquery’);
i tried pasting them where i thought i should but when i tried refreshing the speed test, the errors never went away. i reverted to the original… im not sure where to add them…
For prioritize visible content, i have no clue whatsoever to do, and strongly feel i need to do this. mobile only 31% rendered and 20% on desktop:
Your page requires additional network round trips to render the above-the-fold content. For best performance, reduce the amount of HTML needed to render above-the-fold content.
The entire HTML response was not sufficient to render the above-the-fold content. This usually indicates that additional resources, loaded after HTML parsing, were required to render above-the-fold content. Prioritize visible content that is needed for rendering above-the-fold by including it directly in the HTML response.
For Leverage browser caching: once again, no clue what to do. i tried following the guide again pasted the code from your guide in .htaccess, nothing…. deleted and reverted to original awaiting on your answer.
there’s other minify issues but no instructions on the guide.
i can provide my ftp access, and admin login. please help, really dont know what to do anymore at this point…
You can’t cache things hosted on other people’s websites.
So none of those things you mention can be cached.
Welcome to stupid Google PageSpeed Insights đ
(They penalize you for their own sites in the “rating,” but not in the real world.)
I personally “tune” my sites, with the ads disabled.
I don’t use child themes myself for two reasons (keeping in mind I’ve been building wordpress sites for 9 years now; both for our company and clients — and 20 years as of March 1, 2015 doing websites by hand):
1) it’s a CSS redirect; bad for Google, bad for pagespeed, and introduces some oddball gremlins with things loading from two places at once … seriously; have some weird gremlin? often it’s caching or child theme issue
2) often with many themes these days, the child theme gets updated along with the main theme for major security patches, feature updates; etc. (e.g., if you move to Newspaper ‘5’ next month, there will be new child theme — so, defeats the purpose of not editing the main files)
3) better to simply edit the main files and keep track of what you’re doing. This allows you to have fewer elements to keep track of overall and easier to back-up; easier to manage renaming folders for customization, etc.
Your mileage may vary, but that has been my experience. Especially if you use any kind of caching or systems like mod_pagespeed (as we do). Having a CSS redirect (where you’re essentially saying … load my CSS in one folder, but oh wait, NOW go load the real CSS from this other folder) — is NOT recommended by Google, but that is a basic precept of WordPress usage — started by WP, but not necessarily the best way to actually manage a site and content.
So, it’s up to you.
I don’t work here; it’s not my theme. I have been using Newspaper since Fall 2013; and this is just MY way of doing it. So, it’s only a “suggestion” on my part. Up to you. If you can live with some gremlins in how WP works, possibly pagespeed penalty from Google, and loading two sets of style sheet for the site every time the page is loaded … then enjoy. Nothing inherently wrong with it — but TIME magazine isn’t using a child theme when running WordPress; nor do I.
Why do I need the plugin revolutions slider when I donât use revolutions slider on my website? Can I turn it off because it decreases my websites speed?
Thanks
Why do I need the plugin revolutions slider when I don’t use revolutions slider on my website? Can I turn it off because it decreases my websites speed?
Hi TagDiv,
I want to use WP Content Copy protection and No right Click plugin. Will this plugin slow down the page loading speed and also, If I use this plugin will it be problem for google to crawl my website? As, I want my website with full content protection, what are the other options that I can use besides this.
Thanks,
Aditya
1) How to change the display layout of main category (displayed in my header menu) when that particular category is clicked on? Can i change the design/layout of how the topics/articles are listed there?
2) How to embed the sub categories on the category display page…something like if I want the sub categories to appear at the top just below the header menu?
Looking forward to a speedy response.
Thanks,
Aditya
Issue is not with theme — all themes using Visual Composer as a “drag and drop page builder” are having this issue. And this only impacts some servers. We’re using NewsMag on two high traffic sites right now; one which gets a lot of traffic every day, the other gets large hits “depending on the content.”
Not sure what “SmartMag” is as this is the “NewsMag” forum, but if you read my thread then you don’t need to worry …
a) use the theme with current Visual Composer; might not impact your site/CPU depending on how your server is setup.
b) if you have a large CPU hit you will know immediately, and you can switch to using the SHIM plugin.
c) if you have a VERY high volume traffic website (e.g., millions of page views per day) you should be building a “lean framework” which doesn’t have all the pre-built options baked in, as this is not as efficient as a lean framework where you have as little as possible — e.g., TIME magazine is running on a version of twenty-fifteen theme with some custom plugins to manage editorial matters. No page builder, but lots of stuff running via cloud for fast “edge loading” via the Automattic premium platform. In that situation you would be custom building a theme to fit your needs not buying a $50 off the shelf product.
d) in our case we chose the TagDiv folk to redo our news network sites because 16 months ago when looking around they were one of the VERY few who had some clue about pagespeed optimization beyond so-called “SEO READY” … meaning, some thought given to page speed and not just “feature bloat” with some meta tags built in. We had built our own lean framework which was a pain pre-bootstrap, in 2011; went to Woo Canvas in 2012; went to TagDiv end of 2013 (has it been that long?).
But like all CMS platforms where you have a platform running on top of php, then theme(s) running on top of that, then plugins and hooks going into that, there is always a dev/test process on your end to see what works, what needs to be massaged, and what won’t work at all in your particular environment.
If you’re starting a NEW news site, I don’t think you need to worry about high traffic at this stage, as it takes awhile to build that unless you’re using bots or entirely click-bait with paid adwords per story to drive that.
————–
so, if you reads my thread you know
a) they have a fix NOW that works for those with high CPU issues
b) not all users of Visual Composer have an issue
c) the folks who make VC (not TagDiv) may optimize or fix memory issues in future version; TagDiv has NO control over that beyond working with the WP Bakery developers on the issue.
d) they may “roll their own” sideways version of a page builder which is more ‘lean’ at some point, but obviously that takes a bit of time to develop.
So, have fun and build your site đ
Hi,
Now that we’re up on Newsmag we’re fine tuning, and trying to improve render performance.
When Speed Booster activated we noticed that there is a very quick flash of our page with colors that look like Newsmag demo web site. How do we fix that? I didn’t see anything in documentation about that.
Thanks!
Clint
(I might have asked this already, but couldn’t find the post)
I have big problem. Afer i installed tagdiv speed boster and activated the plugin. All images from my website have dissapeared.
I switched off most of plugins, and images are still of.
How to check the speed of my website on mobile devices?
And how to counter the tweaks which are slowing it down?
Hello,
We are getting a lot of fatal errors and white screens (which require a reload or 2 before website displays.
We have a dedicated server with the following guts:
8X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz – Speed 3499.882 MHz – Cache 8192 KB
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7999512 7368788 630724 80 383808 5755468
-/+ buffers/cache: 1229512 6770000
Swap: 8159228 275904 7883324
Total: 16158740 7644692 8514048
We also have 128MB allocated in the php.ini
We tried deactivating ALL plugins except visual composer.. This did NOT stop errors.
We tried deactivating all except those included from tagDiv.. This also did NOT fix it.
The website in question is: http://diaryofahollywoodstreetking.com
Any assistance fixing these errors and the huge use of server resources would be most appreciated !!
The errors seem to be caused from a broad mix of things. Here is a sample of errors here:
[01-May-2015 14:40:05 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 43253760) (tried to allocate 18560 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/params/iconpicker/iconpicker.php on line 287
[01-May-2015 14:40:12 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 46661632) (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/cache.php on line 632
[01-May-2015 14:40:12 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0
[01-May-2015 14:40:13 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 42729472) (tried to allocate 640 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/params/vc_link/vc_link.php on line 10
[01-May-2015 14:40:15 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 28311552) (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/canonical.php on line 262
[01-May-2015 14:40:15 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 8650752) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/rewrite.php on line 327
[01-May-2015 14:40:21 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 4718592) (tried to allocate 33920 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/query.php on line 2997
[01-May-2015 14:40:36 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 21757952) (tried to allocate 1920 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/theme.php on line 572
[01-May-2015 14:40:36 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 33292288) (tried to allocate 3072 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/user-role-editor/includes/class-garvs-wp-lib.php on line 51
[01-May-2015 14:40:48 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 25952256) (tried to allocate 49152 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/bookmark.php on line 246
[01-May-2015 14:40:59 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 27000832) (tried to allocate 78080 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/script-loader.php on line 519
[01-May-2015 14:40:59 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 43778048) (tried to allocate 196608 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/params/iconpicker/iconpicker.php on line 1478
[01-May-2015 14:41:01 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 10747904) (tried to allocate 49152 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/canonical.php on line 121
[01-May-2015 14:41:02 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 33030144) (tried to allocate 49152 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded.php on line 97
[01-May-2015 14:41:14 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 24117248) (tried to allocate 49152 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/post.php on line 3231
[01-May-2015 14:44:36 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 30670848) (tried to allocate 196608 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-plugin/contact_form.php on line 2108
[01-May-2015 14:44:44 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 24117248) (tried to allocate 3072 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/post.php on line 5341
[01-May-2015 14:44:44 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 37224448) (tried to allocate 120320 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/HSK/includes/td_config.php on line 1813
[01-May-2015 14:44:44 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 29360128) (tried to allocate 3840 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/vars.php on line 70
[01-May-2015 14:44:45 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 46399488) (tried to allocate 77 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/config/map.php on line 3702
[01-May-2015 14:44:45 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 31195136) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 1565
[01-May-2015 14:44:46 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 45613056) (tried to allocate 262400 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/config/map.php on line 3576
[01-May-2015 14:44:47 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 47448064) (tried to allocate 3072 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 79
[01-May-2015 14:44:49 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 35651584) (tried to allocate 1920 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/includes/core.php on line 972
[01-May-2015 14:44:56 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 24379392) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/post.php on line 5379
[01-May-2015 14:44:59 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 27000832) (tried to allocate 196608 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/script-loader.php on line 243
[01-May-2015 14:45:09 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 45613056) (tried to allocate 262400 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/config/map.php on line 3576
[01-May-2015 14:45:10 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 2359296) (tried to allocate 3072 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/pomo/entry.php on line 69
[01-May-2015 14:45:11 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 43515904) (tried to allocate 196608 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/params/iconpicker/iconpicker.php on line 379
[01-May-2015 14:45:17 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 22544384) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/meta.php on line 347
[01-May-2015 14:45:18 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 32768000) (tried to allocate 49152 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded.php on line 97
[01-May-2015 14:45:18 UTC] WordPress database error Lost connection to MySQL server during query for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘home’ LIMIT 1 made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), wp_cookie_constants, get_option
[01-May-2015 14:45:18 UTC] WordPress database error Lost connection to MySQL server during query for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘hack_file’ LIMIT 1 made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), wp_get_active_and_valid_plugins, get_option
[01-May-2015 14:45:18 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 43778048) (tried to allocate 49152 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/params/iconpicker/iconpicker.php on line 972
[01-May-2015 14:45:22 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 28835840) (tried to allocate 3072 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 175
[01-May-2015 14:45:22 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 2883584) (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 85
[01-May-2015 14:45:23 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 3670016) (tried to allocate 49152 bytes) in /home/doahsk/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 3425
I’ve been told by many of our users that anytime that they click on a link from either Twitter or Facebook on their iOS device, that the website will crash their phone. We have lost quite a few of our daily users due to this and wanted to see if anyone has any quick solution to this? We’ve contacted our hosting company and they believe it to be a theme issue.
Our Website (To Check): http://www.edmsauce.com
Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edmsauce
Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/edmsauce
Just to clarify, it’s not really a ‘theme’ issue – for those curious. It’s an issue with Google’s bot having issues with scraping pages to verify actual content vs spammers who try to trick google with content in META data that doesn’t match what is actually on the page.
So, this is why it “seems” like Google’s bot is just ignoring the “description” tags; they use that as “hint” then read the page and look for stuff in certain common “blocks” of content, like “first full paragraph of text on page” …
I am trying to sort out why this happens on some templates, layouts and not on others, across various top websites and small ones, too.
For example I tested page from WIRED mag the other day, and it grabbed the first paragraph; where I tested a page from our main news service portal — which does not use WordPress or any popular CMS [in house system we built in 2005 and I built the templates myself from scratch using customized bootstrap 2.3x code] — and these “should” work but also don’t get the first paragraph captured by G+.
(e.g. this page “should” work — I built it myself đ but does not:
https://www.send2press.com/newswire/tickets-on-sale-for-music-festival-drawing-big-name-acts-to-ohio-aiding-cancer-charities-2015-0416-03.shtml )
this page on wired.com does NOT work (odd they have no G+ buttons; bad SEO!)
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/porsches-new-boxster-made-just-driving-enthusiasts/
So far does NOT appear to be these specific elements, with NewsMag
a) “wide screen” headline — across top, 2 columns
b) category buttons/links above headline, after breadcrumbs (on/off no diff)
c) not issue with using mod_pagespeed for comment and whitespace removal, or rewriting images
d) not issue with https vs non https
*anecodatal: have run into couple of issues with Google News, when scraping page couple of times they grabbed the category buttons in place of the story headline or appended them in front of headline — contrary to news XML sitemap — stupid, stupid, stupid! Possibly need more “separation” from those and headline — not yet sure on that.
So, I’m playing with it in the midst of doing major security audit of WordPress plugins, and code across 15 websites (ugh). Only time we had a WP website “hacked” was way back (something like v 1.6 or 2.6 or something? — Al Gore’s website hacked same day ours was …Nov 2007 for those who know their beans). So, we stay on top of security stuff pretty strictly but these new vulnerabilities are a nest of vipers waiting to get milked for their toothy sting juice (have fun with that sentence English translators!). đ
First off, thanks so much Chris for putting all of this together – koodos to you and supporters alike for building up a community… and despite numerous attempts of asking people to stop asking questions in this sticky, some people simply cannot listen and let temptations lead to questions for the “drift” king himself.
Just to empathize with you, I spent about 3 days going over tons and tons of material pertaining to page speed, caching, functions.php, .htaccess, whatever I end up stumbling upon in hopes of getting that elusive high score .. Frankly, I wanted to blow my brains out (jokingly, not seriously I assure you).
I cannot fathom putting in the amount of work that you have for this sticky alone, and also in other threads. The pattern is clear, people will always turn to someone like you for the spoon fed answer they want. It’s mighty clear the way you’ve put it – I think you said somewhere in this forum that managing the website is purely the responsibility of the website owner, not tagDiv, not the community, it’s the owner’s responsibility. And I loved the buy a race car analogy.
.. well, anyways I think I’ve said what I wanted to, which is again koodos for everything you’ve done – truly truly great work. Same can be said for the rest of the supporters in this forum… I’m still new here, so give me another week and I’ll have nothing left to vent.
I did have something to contribute.. I found a resourceful YouTube vid about W3TC. Which I have started using.. Seems like a path many themers end up with.. It’s not spam, I assure you, the guy in the vid Craig Chamberlin gives an hour long tutorial about cache settings using W3TC. A for beginners, believe me when I say an hour of watching this guy is waaaaaaaayy better than trying to figure this sh#t out on your own in the wee hours of night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYrsb8XnPtM
Cheers everyone!
Hello,
Chris posted this in the Pagespeed topic:
“Open style.css in a text editor, such as TextPad on Windows, BBEdit on Mac, or other pure âtext editorâ â notepad on windows works (NOT WordPad!!)
Go to http://cssminifier.com/
1) in your text editor, select all in the style.css file (CNTRL+A), and copy (right click copy, or CTRL+C)
2) paste into the left box on above website (right click paste or CTRL+V), click minify
3) copy all from right box
4) paste back into your style.css file on top (over/replace) â it should now look line one long string of code, not all the line breaks. This is what âminificationâ does; it removes spaces and line breaks (returns).
Optionally, make new text file called style.css and upload over the original (assuming youâve made a backup). With a good text editor, you can also save with proper line breaks (for Unix servers, for example you should save stuff with âunix line breaksâ and not âwindows line breaksâ) â hence something like TextPad 5 or BBEdit are good choices for this kind of stuff. Other freeware âprogrammer editorâ software works, too.
This is how you manually minify the main style.css file. Must be done after every theme update; but literally takes less than 5 minutes.
You would need to replace the original style.css file either via FTP, or using a file manager in your hosting panel.”
I have 2 questions:
1. Will this also work for Newspaper (the entire pagespeed post?)
2. It says you need to replace the original style.css file – can I just replace the minification in the editor in wordpress?
Best,
Carly
No way to fully remove the “render blocking” issue unless you custom engineer your website from scratch to load pages in “chunks” — which is virtually impossible with off the shelf product like this; so technically you will almost ALWAYS get that warning. So, the “goal” would be to address everything ELSE, and “tune” your site without any external elements being loaded, then switch back on the external stuff (e.g., adverts, etc.).
I don’t use Cloudflare, so not much help there.
The reason I don’t provide “support” anymore is I don’t work here; and every server and setup has different issues which are unrelated to how “I do it.” So, not much help for some things like CLoudflare — I stopped using our Amazon CDN for just such issues like IE randomly not loading font awesome, and Firefox just is a P.O.S. with a whole slew of java issues (e.g., our old ecom system won’t load via mod_SPDY with FIrefox, but works with every other browser known to man — forced me to turn off mod_SPDY and having to migrate our ecom to woocommerce … !). Stupid FF.
Thanks for not bugging me …
The other reason I stopped answering some questions is people would not bother to actually READ my help post and ask if their htaccess file was okay. đ
I have not bothered putting anything in the speedbooster plugin as not a huge help with most stuff; and many plugins that I use actually have option to load JS in footer anyway, so no need to hack that into the plugin.
Upshot — I have not used the plugin beyond its default settings, since mod_pagespeed takes care of a lot of things (except the latest update which was being overloaded by a legacy site with a loop of doom with timthumb…. but woo taking care of that finally..)
blah blah. Anyway… sorry no magic answers today !
Hello,
Have i gone too crazy with the amount of tools i use to speed my WordPress website with the Newspaper theme? Or will any of these options conflict with each other?
I have:
– Gzip compression (on my server)
– Optimized images
– Separate CDN for images (different company).
– W3Cache: Enabled Page Cache
– Basic method
– (may have more settings enabled that i’m not aware of. Not sure, configured it ages ago)
– CloudFlare
– Custom profile
– Caching level: Simplified
– Minimum expire TTL: 3 hours
– Auto Minify (Web optimization): JS, CSS and HTML
– Rocket Loader: Enabled
– Then all my security options are enabled.
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Also i have another question: Do i need to purge the cache in W3Cache when i post a new post? So visitors can see it? Because if i don’t, it doesn’t appear on my visitors side for a few hours. Which means they’ve missed the headline news if they’re scanning my site and don’t have a direct link to post?
Let me know if that doesn’t make sense, and i’ll try and reword it.
Thank you!
Hello,
I am struggling to raise my page speed score on Google.
When testing my site at the page speed insight tool I get 80 on desktop and 49 on mobile.
I have read the speed guide and everything in your knowledge database, but can’t get a page speed above 80. I would really like to have more than 85 at least.
Somehow I have a lot of rendering blocking css files. How can I get rid of them?
Also I am using the Font “Lato” instead of Roboto Condensed, but my website is still fetching Roboto Condensed…
Thanks for your feedback!
Hi,
First of all, thank you for the detailed page speed optimization tutorial, every advice is golden.
At the first moment we achieved 94/100 on mobile and 95/100 on Google PageSpeed Insights tool
We are using all of your suggested code, and tagDiv Speed Booster plugin (which i edited as suggested and added missing render-bloking scripts)
And it worked great for a while.
Now, all of the sudden, mobile speed dropped to 68/100, but we didn’t change anything, it happened by itself. Main reason according to Google PageSpeed is appearance of render-blocking scripts again (only for mobile, which is curious.. desktop test is still 95/100, with no render-blocking scripts). I checked, and scripts reported as render-blocking on mobile ARE included in tagDiv Speed Booster and should not be render-blocking
Any ideas or tips on how we could fix this?
Our website is https://www.recepti-kuvar.rs/
Thanks in advance!
Hey i was setting everything and after installing the speed booster plugin i am getting with this http://snag.gy/FLNjH.jpg and whenever i am deleting the cache of the website for 2 – 3 minutes everything goes alring but after that i ends up with same issue.
Regards
I received a message from Google Webmaster:
Google systems have tested 16 pages from your site and found that 63% of them have critical mobile usability errors.
Here are the errors on my website: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aroundtheplanet.org%2Fgrandmas-dim-sum-flushing-restaurant-review%2F&hl=en&priorityGroup=usability&tab=mobile&utm_source=wmx&utm_campaign=wmx_mobilepsi
Could you guys fix it to make it mobile friendly?
Thanks
Hi,
I have spoken to the webhosting company for my website and they keep telling me to optimize my site as much as possible and reduce the # of requests to 35-40. I have optimized most of the plugins and images, but here are my results still:
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This specific test was done on March 12 at 12:41:54 from Dallas, Texas, USA. The web page took 14.87 s to load, used 95 requests, and weighed in at 1.4 MB.
The Google Page Speed performance grade for this web page is 62/100
Thereâs a ton of more information you can check out here: http://fpt.pingdom.com#!/ijBuG/http://feedup.ca
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Suggestions on how to optimize and reduce all these requests. The results show a ton of css files as the requests. All the info is there, but a 14.87s load time for a site is ridiculous!
Please help.
