Hello,
Could you check my development site clone for live site, Marketwisetrader.com?
The dev location is; ‘mkdv.meta-morphos.es’
I’ve optimized the site with plugins, and deleted all unneccesary plugins, posts, and pages, but on GTMetrix it still gets a D/D score.
Another Tech Support person said that the site seemed to be demanding excessive resources for the initial loading.
Could you tell me why and how to improve the loading speed?
Thank you,
Lon K
Hello !
Take a look at this tutorial on how to increase your page speed: https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/ This should solve a lot of your pages issues. Also make sure that your system requirements are achieved as in the system requirements topic: https://tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-requirements/
If these 2 are completed your page speed should increase drasticly !
Thank you !
Hello Vlad,
1.) I’ve gone through all the steps suggested and the GTMetrix score has improved from
’90 /69,5.2 sec’ to ’90 /74, 3.1 sec’. The only thing I can think of to drop loading time below 2 sec. is to remove image content from the home page. I don’t have a CDN and only an intermediate level VPS account.
2.) Could you suggest a solution for the odd re-loading of my home and secondary pages? I have Super Cache installed but whenever I go to the home page or refresh it commpletely, it reloads the background, menu and home page content. Before it reloads it flashes white which is very distracting. Also, the top menu flashes to some default blue color on some tabs, before returning to correct color settings. I’ve searched everywhere through the Theme Panel and can’t find the blue setting anywhere in order to turn it off.
‘Mkdv.meta-morphos.es’
Thanks,
Lon K
Hi,
I have checked your website and I saw that you have set up another main menu background for that section. So, it seems that your style is loaded later and that’s why you bring that flash. Try to add your code inside the script tags into your Google Analitycs section, like this -> https://www.screencast.com/t/mYyCTTvljMzl and that rule should have to be firstly loaded in the header and therefore, the flash should not be there.
<style>.td-boxed-layout .td-header-style-3 .td-header-menu-wrap, .td-boxed-layout .td-header-style-4 .td-header-menu-wrap, .td-header-style-3 .td_stretch_content .td-header-menu-wrap, .td-header-style-4 .td_stretch_content .td-header-menu-wrap {
background-color: #5a6d5b !important;}
</style>
Hope this helps!
Thank you!
Hello Catalin,
I added your code in the Newspaper theme dashboard as your example shows.
I still get a white flash when I return to Home from any page. Plus the blue tab still shows up momentarily.
I don’t understand your comment,”you have set up another main menu background for that section’??
Another one? I have set only a color background and an image background in the theme dashboard. The color background was an attempt to avoid the white flash between the loading of the image background.
How do I set up the background so it is pre-loaded and cached and doesn’t reload at each page view?
Why is the blue tab appearing on the top menu?
Lon
Hi,
I tested the website with gtmetrix, looks quite fine from what I can see
– http://prntscr.com/oiu155
Removing the thumbnails from the page would reduce the page size and improve loading speed. Maybe consider using an image optimization plugin, make some tests with it as well.
The color flash you mention in the header section can be visible in some cases. For a brief moment the initial colors of the header in this case are seen, before the custom colors are loaded and applied. It could even be caused by optimization plugins, same for the background image.
There should be a transition before the background image loads, like in this demo post
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/td-post-2015-awards-all-of-the-best-and-worst-moments-from-the-show/
If as a test you deactivate the optimization plugins you are using at the moment, what are the results?
Thanks
Hello Simion,
The current load speeds on GTMetrix are after going through all the recommended site and server adjustments, and running a couple optimization plugins plus reSmushit image compression. I removed one block of news posts and thumbnails which sped up the loading a little. I think the only option left to me to try and get below a 2 seconds load is to use a CDN to cache files and close more of the news blocks.
About the flashing and blue color mentioned; I added the code that Catalin posted and it improved slightly.
Can you tell me where in the theme files the blue color is coded as the default color? I will replace it.
Thank you,
Lon
Hi,
You could do that, the black initial color is set here – http://prntscr.com/oja6wi
The menu item color is in the same file here – http://prntscr.com/oja9e0
Changing them there to the color you want or removing the color from there would be a solution for this case.
Thanks
Simion,
I replaced all the blue color hex codes in the file you posted and it seems that has solved the problem.
I have another problem thats come up. I tried to create a new Post page but in the page view neither of the page builders are visible to use? In Pages they are visible in the top bar. I deactivated and re-activated the the plugins but there was no change.
When I select create new Post, a white page comes up briefly with this error message, then continues to the new Post page.
“Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘wshk_meta_save’ not found or invalid function name in /home/metamo19/public_html/marketwise/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 288”
Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Lon
Hi,
The composer edit option won’t appear for posts, just for pages. While the composer allows the creation of post templates – https://cloud.tagdiv.com/#/load/Single through the cloud library plugin, it can’t be used to create the actual post content.
Regarding that warning, maybe you use this plugin and you may need to update it
– https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-call_user_func_array-expects-parameter-1-5/
Thanks
Hello Simion,
Thanks for the link for the code error fix.
About Posts; Gutenberg inserting itself in the Page/Posts layout pages is a bit dis-orienting and I remember now that posts were configured pre-Gutenberg using the list of Sidebar layouts and post layouts selectable in the Theme dashboard. I’m not sure what you mean when you say;
‘While the composer allows the creation of post templates https://cloud.tagdiv.com/#/load/Single through the cloud library plugin, it can’t be used to create the actual post content.”
Is there some way to view and select TagCloud Library templates within the Post layout page? I don’t find it. If not, how are we to select one of the Post templates for use on a post page?
Lon
Hi,
Maybe I misunderstood, sorry if I did. I was trying to explain that the composer cannot be used to edit posts, so there will be no buttons in the admin bar, only to edit the template (if a cloud template is used).
Once imported/created and saved, the cloud post templates will appear in the selection
– http://prntscr.com/ok89km
You can also rename them in order to identify them faster
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-cloud-library-plugin/
So you can import as many templates as you want, configure them as needed, then these will appear in the post edit screen. Let me know.
Thanks
