Slow loading time / Slow page speed

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Metro Barcelone
#540272
Feb 26, 2026 at 5:49 am

https://metrobarcelone.fr/

Hi, I took the newspaper demo Newsweek!

Very slow loading page speed. Homepage sometimes not even loading!
It is the first time it happens to me after purchasing around 20 licenses (from newspaper) for different websites.
Is it the theme or the demo?

I am using w3 total cache. I have cleared the cache several times.

Nothing changes even if using airlift plugin.

I also cleared the cache on server side.

Here a screenshot: http://metrobarcelone.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-02-26-044549.png

Can you please let me know where the problem is?
How can I improve page speed – this is very slow

Thanks
Marc

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Calin
#540283
Feb 26, 2026 at 11:29 am

Hi Marc,
I just checked the website, and this seems to be working ok for visitors. Also, I see that you are now using the LiteSpeed Cache plugin.
Now, related to the page speed results, this depends on factors like page dimensions, images, external resources, and cache…
UNfortubatley becouse the latespeed is not a tested pluginwe can not say for sure what option to enable and what option to disable to get a better performance, but let’s start with general pagespeed settings:
– convert images in webp format (there are cache plugins that can do this, but if the Litespeed is not doing this, the EWWW Image Optimizer can be used https://prnt.sc/DzMY6YynebbI). Make sure that only a lazyload option is enabled (the theme has an option https://prnt.sc/4pqTwHya8Awa and most likely other plugins that optimize the image to have the option)
– enable this theme option – https://prnt.sc/Ir7qNRhstgSA – https://prnt.sc/k2M5pc8odE1D (AGGREGATE INLINE CSS option needs to be tested with teh cache plugin)
– disable the mobile header on desktop and desktop header on mobile (this can be done for the sticky headers, but make sure that the mobile cache option is enabled – https://prnt.sc/r3QB7-vZ4UzH https://prnt.sc/KBdRK8nc90UW
– on mobile simply disable the mobile sticky menu https://prnt.sc/IFe6OfBzige7 and select the regular menu and set it to be sticky, also make sure that you have set a background color for it – https://prnt.sc/I6G0kypEakOM
– use an object cache (Redis or Memcached)
– use a CDN like Cloudflare

I hope those first steps to help you to get a better speed.

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