Hi tagDiv Team,
I am reaching out on behalf of Tendences.lv, a Latvian news and lifestyle portal that currently contains approximately 6,000 articles. Over time, while testing various themes, templates, and plugin combinations, our website has become increasingly heavy and slow.
Despite using optimization tools such as WP Rocket, our Google PageSpeed Insights scores remain low—approximately 60% on mobile and 75% on desktop. Most concerning is the fact that we are now receiving warnings about poor Core Web Vitals across the entire site, with Google Search Console recommending improvements for all pages.
Additionally, we have accumulated over 6,000 RSS feed URLs, which are currently being indexed, but do not lead to actual content pages. Google is now flagging these and requesting their removal from the index.
Given these issues, I have the following questions:
Is there a way to fully reset our WordPress theme and related settings, so we can start fresh with lightweight templates for each view (mobile, desktop, etc.)—ideally restoring WordPress and the theme to default without excess custom code or data?
If a full reset is not possible, could your team assist us in cleaning and optimizing the site (both technically and structurally)? If so, could you please provide a rough estimate of the cost for such work?
We are looking for a sustainable solution that would allow us to improve speed, pass Core Web Vitals, and resolve the indexing issues long-term.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Aldis
Tendences.lv
Hi Aldis,
I see that now on desktop the results are better – https://i.imgur.com/d8ONEjN.png but on mobile are like you mentioned – https://i.imgur.com/FjqIfoQ.png
Her are some settings that can help.
– set the menu links using the custom link instead using page and category (those will do more request to the database the custom link).
– use plugins to clean transient and database ( WP-Sweep and Advanced Database Cleaner)
– make sure you have set the WP rocket settings similar with those from our guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-rocket-and-newspaper-theme-optimization-guide/ (settings can be changed if you find for your situation some configurations with better results)
– use a CDN https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
– make sure you are using an image optimize
– use only cloud template and remove tagDiv Standard Pack plugin
– make sure all images have set width and height
I hope those will help you!
Thank you!
Thank you Calin!
I will follow these advices and latter will let you know results.
BR, Aldis
