I have been working on a clients WebPage.
It is a news portal. They handle a LOT of posts a day. And have some nasty requirements (which force me to run a bit too many plugins like: adrotate, jetpack, redirection, easy responsive tabs, weather plugin, alexa rank widget, and due to security reasons Hide-My-WP from codecanyon).
They’re on a dedicated server, which has a long response time (about 1.4s) Thanks to the guides, here and google pagespeed insights i was able to bring the pagespeed score from 23 up to 64 (enabling gzip among other things). But all the time I have noticed that when I do the check i get an error on the Desktop version.
Screenshot here
Anyone have any idea why I’m getting this error, or how I can fix it?
you can find the site at Aztecasonora.com
Screen shot showing the desktop tab might be helpful.
Perhaps it’s due to the insights bot timing out trying to read the page.
What error message is it giving you?
Duh! sorry about that, had my blonde moment of the day.
Another curious thing I’ve noticed, I am using wp-smush but google still says the images can be optimized.
Yeah… (hey, I’m blond!)
… that’s a time out error. Either due to page loading too slowly or an issue with DNS not being able to resolve the page properly (server overload, routing issue for DNS resolution, etc.).
I had that happen when we first turned on mod_pagespeed with a bad setting, and the pages were taking 14 seconds to load or bottom half of page wouldn’t load due to a bad “lazy loading” setting (!).
Try loading/testing the page in GTMetrix.com instead, as it can often give you better “what is wrong” info versus just telling you something didn’t work.
GTMetrix gives me 87% speedgrade and yslow 72 if i remember correctly
Pingdom gives me 80 /100 score
Most of the suggestions involve the external js and css files and use of a CDN.
Is it possible to combine JS and CSS files on wordpress? without the site breaking of course, to reduce the amount of requests is a common suggestion on all pagespeed tools.
What lazy load plugin would you recommend ?
Well, I was suggesting GTMetrix to help debug WHY your pages are not loading properly. It allows you to test from different locations and browser types and is also good at identifying issue by topic like “server” related issues that might be causing timeout issue.
The tagdiv speedbooster plugin helps with optimizing the theme CSS and JS.
I had nothing but problems with lazy loading myself, but ideally something like mod_pagespeed running at server level does that, and I think there are some plugins you could try on the WordPress.org plugin repository. Can’t recommend one, as I don’t use that. It’s more useful for long pages with lots of images below the fold. Won’t help with your page timing out on first load!
Hi,
Thanks Christopher!
@itrejomx
Please use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
You should also take a look upon this topic: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/pagespeed/
Please also consider deactivating the plugins and emptying your cache and also purge files if you use any cache or CDN services and use the speed booster plugin at first without any additional plugins to avoid conflicts.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Thanks Christopher and Lucian.
The speed booster plugin, does it asynchronously load the JS ? does it minify JS and CSS? or does it simply send the JS and CSS to after the <body>
finally figured out what the error on pagespeed insights page was. Load time exceeds the maxmimum wait time.
Hi,
Glad you did. When you enabled the speed booster plugin a minified version of themes js is loaded: http://screencast.com/t/b2ZvBljr and moves it to the footer.
Thanks
