My old Newspaper demo (to check of server was working) was using Theme version 7.2 with Cars demo content was doing 175 queries in 0,445 seconds. Just installed v9 and this is the result on the same demo was 248 queries in 0,923
Summary:
7.2 175 queries in 0,445
9.0 248 queries in 0,923
Both have the same wordpress (latest) and the same plugins (only essential). So for some reason the theme started doing 73 additional queries, which has double the time to first byte of the page. Since I am usually ‘forced’ to update at some point (security fixes) I would like to know: Is speed still a factor in future development or is adding new features more important than performance?
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I noticed that the header check went from reporting 17 queries in 0,082 to 17 queries in 0,285 sec. So before most of the theme is loaded, 200ms is lost.
Hello,
Indeed adding more features will result in a few extra queries. There were lots of features added since version 7. There were 2 major updates with lots of new features in between newspaper 7 and newspaper 9
Performance is still a concern to us ad we will not sacrifice the theme performance for adding new features but we do have to improve the theme functionality also. You cannot ad new features without some performance loss. We are working on optimization though so performance will see an increase in future releases. We are constantly working on new features but on performance optimization as well.
Until then, you can try to improve your page loading speed by optimizing your install. Try these few guides that will improve your loading speed:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
We also recommend this Cloudflare configuration
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
For speedbooster you can disable the compatibility check like so:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tinymce-advanced-and-other-various-disabling-speed-boster/
Thank you for understanding.
