Hello,
My website is very slow when using newspaper theme, it takes over 60 seconds to fully load!
Speed test pic when using newspaper theme: http://i.imgur.com/XiDqzjW.png 64 seconds to load!
Speed test pic when using tweenty sixteen theme: http://i.imgur.com/dOWinkn.png 0.8 seconds to load!
This obviously shows that there is something wrong with newspaper theme.
I am using Godaddy Managed WordPress hosting. It seems the theme is broken and does not work with managed wordpress hosting the way it should. (I find this very ironic, since its WORDPRESS hosting.)
What can I do to fix this problem?
I’m also getting random erros when trying to upload images to media library. There is also no preview thumbnails in my media library for pictures that were uploaded when using newspaper theme. Again, this only happens with newspaper theme. If I switch to any other theme like tweenty sixteen everything works perfectly.
(Also, the only plugin I use is visual composer.)
Please help.
Hello Ryuko,
The theme code was tested and optimized for best performance, we have a lot of clients and the theme works well on a large variety of hosts.
First, please make sure that you use the recommended server configuration for Newspaper theme, you can check our documentation for more details: https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
There are lots of factors that influence the site’s page-sped. I suggest you first try this without any other plugins active, leave just VC plugin active the check again.
To improve your server response time you can try to reduce the number of queries (fewer plugins, fewer blocks on page, reduce the elements which use ajax requests/pagination like mega menus/load more/infinite load), also consider using a cache plugin, we recommend the WP super cache plugin with the following configuration: https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
To improve the loading speed look the MySQL query cache: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html we also use it on our demo.
Also, you can use the speed booster to move the js and CSS at the bottom of the page, eliminate render-blocking, but not for all plugins. Check the System Status if the speed booster is active if you use other plugins than the tested ones. You can find some useful information regrading Speed Booster usage in this topic: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/speed-booster-questions/
Also, you can read this guide, it may help – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the message!
