Hello,
I just installed your theme on my site and then installed the default demo (with content). I didn’t change anything else. After running Google’s Pagespeed insights, I got 19/100 for mobile and 24/100 for desktop. Other WordPress themes I tried get MUCH better ratings than this (closer to 80/100). This is unacceptable.
What is the problem with your theme?
Hi,
You can improve your page speed by following this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
If you check our demo in the google page speed tool, you will see that there is no problem with the theme: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.tagdiv.com%2Fnewspaper%2F&tab=desktop
Thank you!
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
1. I have no added plugins active other than the ones you supplied.
2. I have installed your speed booster plugin and activated it.
3. I am using only your default demo and your content with no modifications.
4. The pagespeed insight still gives me terrible readings of 28 for mobile and 32 for desktop.
5. Other themes give me 70-100 for both so clearly the issue isn’t with my hosting.
6. After running pagespeed insight and activating ONLY your plugins, I get the following for mobile:
“Should Fix:
Enable compression
Leverage browser caching
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Minify CSS
Consider Fixing:
Prioritize visible content
Minify HTML
Reduce server response time”
For desktop, I get:
“Should Fix:
Enable compression
Leverage browser caching
Minify CSS
Consider Fixing:
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Minify HTML
Prioritize visible content
Reduce server response time”
What next?
Yes,
YOU need to properly setup your hosting system.
a) Enable compression is done at server level => you need gzip/deflate active, this alone is good for 20 points
b) you need to enable browser caching settings, aka “time to live” — this is typically done in your htaccess file
c) server response time is how fast/slow it takes your hosting system to respond to a response and start building a php page — that is mostly due to your hosting setup, nothing to do with the theme
Use my optimization guide in the tutorials / DIY / best of forums, to learn how to properly optimize your WordPress site.
No complex theme will “out of the box” do as well as a pure text-based theme. So it’s not apples to apples.
The main issues you have are a) and b) and only YOU can fix that as it’s NOT theme related.
Good luck.
(( I don’t work here . . . )
Myself have issue with render-blocking JavaScript and CSS… and and no plugin can fix it, how to?
I see demo theme that has 90/100 😐
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 2 blocking script resources and 6 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
Remove render-blocking JavaScript:
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.3
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…s/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…r=2.5.7-5693.pagespeed.cf.UDybPq-xWG.css
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…css,qver=4.2.pagespeed.cf.Io6Fs5icoS.css
http://fonts.googleapis.com/…%2C600italic%2C400%2C600%2C700&ver=4.4.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/…%2C700%2C500italic%2C400%2C300&ver=4.4.1
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…s,qver=4.6.2.pagespeed.cf.JyfuAoEqVC.css
http://demo.tagdiv.com/…s,qver=6.6.4.pagespeed.cf.33YDcclKNz.css
Hi,
In my reply above you will see a link to our page speed guide. There is a plugin for it named visual composer. Please follow the guide carefully and speedbooster will take cvare of render blocking. Please also follow this topic to learn about speedbooster’s plugin protection: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/incompatible-plugin-detected/
Thank you!
