Hello!
Does the theme get faster automatically after update to 1.5 or do I have to download any plugin for it? Because the my site i still pretty slow, especially on the phone.
+1 to this post, i’d like to know as well. And how we get it faster.
Hello !
Plugins Cache,
Read before installing:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
I use, It Pays:
http://wp-rocket.me/
I used w3-total-cache and it seems to drop the load speed from 3.6 seconds down to 1.26 seconds.
Still looking forward to some minified CSS and JS but until then the caching plugins are the way to go.
I tried the W3 Total Cache plugin, didn’t give me any speed at all.
We use W3 total cache and it is a beast. Absolutely speeds up your website, especially when you have a lot of content and a lot of visitors. We use page cache (memcached), browser cache and database cache (also memcached).
w3C cache does implement many of the tricks for optimizing your site. Note you can also do some of that yourself using your htaccess file and make sure you optimize the heck out of your featured images (mine are about 16-24kb max for 700×406). There are quite a few great articles out there on implementing some of the W3C stuff without using the plugin, if you only want to test bits of that. Also setting up an Amazon CDN (S3+cloudfront) and hosting your JS/CSS and fonts there will also speed up your site. You can’t entirely rely on the “theme” to manage your site optimization, as a bunch of that is related to hosting, optimization of images, and minimizing using plugins and fancy jetpack stuff (basically anything that calls out to another site slows yours …). Putting more than two ads on the page from AdSense really slows it down, using anything connected to facebook or twitter “on the page” slows it down. Etc.
I have to disagree with Adsense, ever since they came up with the Async version of their ads. Basically, it makes sure that your page loads first and then it will load the ad.
Hello,
I’m the guy that configured this server ( http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/ ) that gets 99-100 in google page speed and since we don’t yet have a guide about how to configure the theme and server for top speed I will write here some sugestions.
If you have any questions about speed, this is the thread for you. I will make it sticky and I will check it periodically to respond to all your questions.
– the demo is running a stock Newspaper theme
– the demo uses the tagDiv speed booster plugin – basically that plugin activates the compressed javascript from the theme and it also moves all the stylesheets and javascripts to the bottom of the html. This may break compatibility with some wordpress plugins (the ones that we recommend when you install the theme are well tested and work perfectly)
The list of speed recommendations:
– we recommend that you use W3 total cache with just the full page cache module enabled. If you have a lot of ram on your server you can use the APC full page cache (if anyone is interested I can make a tutorial for that but this option requires a dedicated server)
If you have a dedicated server / VPS:
– make sure that you have APC installed or another op cache for php. We have receive some reports that eaccelerator has some problems in specific configurations with our theme and Nginx. This will reduce your server response time.
– make sure that you have compression enabled on your site for html/js/css but not for images
– leverage browser caching – https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/LeverageBrowserCaching google page speed requiers that you set an expiring cache of 7 days or more
Hi Radu !
how to exclude counter views of cache. if possible !
Hi Radu,
The tagDiv speed booster plugin doesn’t respect any of the changes made by the admin in terms of site colour. It defaults to the baby blue and can’t be changed…just a small note. Switching it off fixed it for me but would rather be using it.
@trieuthanhtuan take a look in the downloaded folder that includes the zip file for the theme. There is a plugins folder in there containing the td booster plugin and the social counter zips.
Hey iOSPortalSK:
Yup. Most of our sites are 1+ million page views, so we’re on top of that big time with anything we can do async or deferred or compressed (helps having our own dedicated dual xeon server, too). 🙂 Ironically, Google penalizes its own ad network in pagespeed tests, so often good for mental health to deactivate adsense when testing your pages for a raw number !
Hello
The Version 1.7.1 is 1000X sloooooooooooower than the version 1.0.1
Example:
http://hdslr.com.br/ V 1.0.1 VS http://filmmaker.com.br/ V 1.7.1
Same hosting, same pages, same plugins, same posts, same videos, same images
I am completely disappointed
PS V 1.7.1 + plugin W3 Total Cache
Hello @helder
Se here: http://screencast.com/t/ZyZWRYIB9S9
No solutions? …
@Marius can you do a similar analysis for me as you did for @helder?
My site is: http://vigorousbeats.com/
Hello @Toui
Please check you site load very bad, you have a lot of request ~500 about avatar, do you use some avatar plugin or some CDN service http://screencast.com/t/PAVXKnnpGTc
no solutions
I’ll have to look for a new template
Waste of money
