Hi,
I really like the Newspaper theme, but whenever we test it on occasion, it always ranks slowest vs. other themes out of the box. Are there any examples of sites that are using a current version of the Newspaper theme that are fast and optimized? Would love to see some examples and understand how they achieved it.
Thanks!
Hello frankcf,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Notice that is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements. For an example, you should check our demo preview because this website is optimized.
Thanks for your understanding!
The new “speed” method I am recommending for next gen sites is
a) make sure you have images properly optimized, minify style css and main js file once site “designed”
b) make sure your time to live and gzip settings are correct
c) minimize or eliminate loading ANY external resources
d) consider moving to php 7 with opcache
e) consider moving to https + http/2 which serves pages as one compressed packet/bundle via gzip
Thanks to both of you! Are there any examples of sites that achieve good scores? Even the demo has poor Google PageSpeed results:
https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/the-most-anticipated-charter-flights-in-the-canary-islands/
Google PageSpeed Result:
– Mobile: 51/100
– Desktop: 60/100
If the demo is most highly optimized, that does not give me confidence that we will be able to optimize ours. Hoping to find other examples as well.
Thanks!
a few examples
http://www.arenainord.no/
http://feetsavior.com/
https://badgergp.com/
and you can check more at showcase :-p
Example: https://www.infophilic.com/
Note – my California website found in the showcase has not been “re-optimized” — we had server crash, went to backup, then stopped tweaking with mod_pagespeed off, in favor of testing the move to http/2 … but still 89/91 when loading ads on page, with https, and with mod_pagespeed OFF and no caching plugin …. so…. it’s doable even when half-assed like mine are right now đ
Thanks everyone – great examples! Some however, are still pretty slow (e.g. if testing with GTMetrix).
I love the Newspaper theme but really hope they make a version of it already pre-configured out-of-the-box for speed.
Well, you can’t “pre-configure” image optimization settings, time to live, opcache, gzip, choice of not using Google fonts or not, limit ads, turn off pulling in “likes” “shares” info, limit ad networks, choosing fast server/hosting with multiple backbone connections, caching plugins, etc., etc. — that can only be done by the webdev.
Yes, some things aren’t possible to optimize only via the theme alone, but when I test Newspaper vs. other themes (six other ones) out-of-the-box using the same test post content, Newspaper is always the slowest and has the worst scores (both on Google PageSpeed and GTMetrix).
Again, I love the theme, but wish it was better optimized for speed.
