I’ve tried the stuff here. The gzip thing is schizo. I do a gzip test and it says “working”, but then I do a speed test and it says “needs compression”. Installed the wp cache plugin, etc. Tried most of the stuff here – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/, not much improvement. Anything else to try that is unique to this theme? Faster homepages? I’m using the sport demo and even cut down a lot of the content. We’re talking really slow. 8 seconds to load. Thanks!
Hello,
Unfortunately page speed is a very personal thing and it depends on lots of things starting from the server that you use. If your hosting is slow, you can do every bit of customization out there, but you will not get anywhere. Please make sure you meet the requirements for newspaper: https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ and increase your system status parameters like so: https://forum.tagdiv.com/system-status-parameters-guide/
You might even consider changing the host. If this is not the case, thn you can try this topic for a more customized approach to page speed: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
Thank you!
Thanks for info. I checked my settings and upgraded to the theme’s rec’m PHP version, but tried to with MySQL (I have “MySQL 5.0.90-community-log”) but my host said I needed to upgrade to get a higher mysql version. Could this be that significant of speed hit – I have minimum required MySQL but not rec’m. This sucks because right now I’m getting a huge traffic spike but high bounce rate because it’s a super slow site. Idk what to do. I love the look of the site, but it’s not performing like the demo.
Hi JJ0000,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized. Please notice that this is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Please notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
I really don’t get why this theme is so slow for my site. I’m talking aol dialup slow, on a live med/high traffic site. There’s nothing on my site that’s really out of the ordinary. I optimize my images, did the cache, have many of the same plugins as my old theme, have the minimum requirements for the theme, etc.
So last question — could it be because I installed it as the demo WITH the content (later deleting the content). Should I try reinstalling it with no demo content? Thanks.
Hello JJ0000,
The speed site does not depend on how you install the demo (with or without content). Please send us an email at contact@tagdiv.com with your log-in information (wp-admin) so we can further inspect it closer. Also, please provide the link of this topic so we can easily identify you.
Thanks for the message!
