Hi. My site is incredibly slow when I activate the Newspaper plug-ins Td Composer and Td Standard Pack. the problem occurs above all for the home page. It takes from 10 to 20 seconds to load the page. I tried to understand what the cause is in different ways, but I can’t solve the problem. I tried caching plugins and optimizing site contents plugin but nothing.
Thank you for anything you can do to help me to understand what’s going on.
Hello,
The page speed is not related only to the theme that you are using, this is affected by plugins/content/ads/ external resources, etc.
To increase the page speed you can check these similar topics for more solutions:
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/optimize-script-to-improve-site-speed/
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/a-few-tips-for-newspaper-x-speed-high-cpu-usage-issues/
– https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/
However, page loading speed can depend on many factors, and each website is unique from this point of view.
Let me explain some of these factors and maybe they give you some starting points for optimizing your website.
External factors: server speed, if you are using CDN or not, the external resources loaded by your website like ads, fonts, tracking scripts like Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, Twitter analytics, Hotjar and so on.
Internal factors: the number of elements on the page, image size, image formats, if you are using mobile optimized layouts, console errors, if you are using the Standard Pack plugin on not if you are using PRO demo or a standard one.
Hope this helps you!
Thank you!
Maybe you are experiencing the same problem as I am, that is this plugin occures loading content multiple times (3 in my case).
Look at my post for details, and maybe it could help you to find you source of problems.
very slow page loading due to loading the content multiple times.
Thank you for your reply.
I had the same site on different servers (OVH, Contabo and Aruba) but it has always been slow (from 10 to 20 seconds to load the homepage) and the problem occurs just on the homepage, while the posts templates are faster (from 3 to 6 seconds loading), so I think the problem mostly occurs when the homepage is loaded, even if I’d like to speed up the posts loading as well.
I’m not using CDN.
My website loads external resources like ads (Google Adsense), fonts, and tracking scripts (Google Analytics).
The homepage contain several blocks (55 Td Flex blocks 1, 1 Post Slider, 2 Single Image, 2 Team Member, 1 Icon Box, 12 Title, 8 Separators, 7 Rows, 14 Inner Rows).
About image size or formats, I will check it out even if the homepage loading is slow even if it loads images from the memory cache.
I’m not using mobile optimized layouts.
I have no console error.
I am using using the Standard Pack plugin.
I will follow your tips to increase page speed and I will tell you if it works, then I will chech the factors you refer to, then I will add some more info on this topic.
Thank you.
Hi Dominik, thank you for your reply. I read you topic and I ckecked the Network tool on Chrome, but I don’t see multiple loading of the same elements in my case. Anyway, thank you very much for your help. I will update this topic when I’ll have more infos about my problem.
Hi libraeditrice. The problem is not on network traffic but in parsing the content (thats why the TTFB is so long).
To observe this, you need to add to your site any simple hook like eg. ‘wp_head’, in which you will send on console info from within PHP (using eg. ChomeLogger or else).
Thank you Dominik, I will follow your advice and then I will update this topic when I have more infos. Thank you very much.
Hi. I still can’t find out where is the problem.
I installed the WordPress.org community’s “Health Check & Troubleshooting” plugin and I performed a test in Diagnostic mode.
If I disable all the plugins the site is fast. If I enable the only TD Composer plugin it takes about 30 seconds to load the homepage of my site.
I also installed and activated the John Blackbourn’s “Query Monitor” plugin, when I load the homepage the Query monitor panel shows about 40 “Slow queries” coming from the TD Composer plugin.
I would be happy for some advice.
Hi libraeditrice,
What are you using for your homepage? Did you use simple text with image as in a default WordPress theme? or you are using blocks, grids and more elements from theme builder? Because when you disable the composer, will be only shortcodes on desktop and this will be actually a text that will be loaded quite fast without any queries. When the them plugins are enable the website structured is change and the layout will be much different with different elements that make each one of them and it need to make optimizations for your website. Indeed some times there are other problems interfering that can make your website slower, like a slow host, extra plugins and uploading unused code.
If you want, we can take a loot at your website and provide better advices, for this, you can contact us at contact@tagdiv.com, make a full backup for your website and database and provide wp-admin access, also include a link of this topic in email.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi Calin. Thank you very much for your answer.
Sure, I am happy to give you access to my website as admin. I provided credentials via email to the address contact@tagdiv.com a few minutes ago.
What are you using for your homepage? Did you use simple text with image as in a default WordPress theme? or you are using blocks, grids and more elements from theme builder? Because when you disable the composer, will be only shortcodes on desktop and this will be actually a text that will be loaded quite fast without any queries.
I am using TD Composer plugin for my homepage. There are blocks, rows and other elements in the homepage. If I disable all the plugins, then shortcodes appear on the page and the page loading is very fast: about 500ms. If I keep all plugins disabled but I enable just the TD Composer Plugin, shortcode disappear, blocks appear and the homepage takes about 30 secs to load, if I’m logged in. For non-loggedin users I use a cache plugin (Hummingbird).
I installed Query Monitor plugin and when I load the homepage, in the plugin panel I see about 40 “slow queries” by the TD Composer plugin, as you will see when you’ll login as admin.
If you want to test the compatibility issues, I installed “Health Check and Troubleshooting” plugin, so if you enable the Diagnostic mode you can disable and enable the plugins one-by-one without compromising the site functionality.
I took a look even at the server’s processes with a ssh connection (bash command: top). I noticed that it indicates 200/400% CPU usage for the process “mysql”. Maybe this could help you to understand what’s going on.
Thank you very much.
Hello 6 months later. I am experiencing the same problem. Were you able to find a solution?
Hello @m!
I just replied you with some tips here, please check: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/td-composer-creates-27-slow-db-queries-on-every-page-load/
Hope that helps you!
Thank you!
