Hoping to get some help, or at least point me in the right direction. Everywhere I turn to, they point the fingers at someone else. So I am hoping it is a simple Newspaper Theme issue that can resolve it.
Long story short – site has been slow, looking to switch hosts (open to suggestions!). In doing so, I checked my storage used and bandwidth. Didn’t think much of it when I saw 6.7GB storage, and over 100GB of bandwidth on 55k visitors.
But, when looking at some hosts – seemed common from what they are telling me to not need over 10GB of storage or 50GB of Bandwidth until at a bare minimum of 100k visitors, more likely at 250k. its just a standard blog with some basic images.
Ran a few pages on pingdom – coming back at 1.4mb to 1.8mb each. Well times 55k visitors, bandwidth makes sense now. And slow loading too.
Kept digging, coming back with like 3.500 excessive Dom Requests (dont know if related). Removed some images, etc. Still same results.
My host is blaming the theme, but lost faith in them. Any help or guidance would be incredibly appreciated!!!! What did I do wrong and how can I fix it???
http://www.michaealryanmoney.com
Pagespeed Results of one of the better pages:
64 Performance
98 Accessibility
83 Best Practices
83 SEO
Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) 2 s
First Input Delay (FID) 51 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) 0.19
First Contentful Paint (FCP) 1.7 s
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) 321 ms
Time to First Byte (TTFB) 0.9 s
Pingdom Results of one of the “better” results:
Performance grade C74
Page size 1.3 MB
Load time 3.97 s
Requests 56
Improve page performance
GRADE SUGGESTION
F0 Add Expires headers
F16 Make fewer HTTP requests
F50 Use cookie-free domains
D67 Compress components with gzip
C75 Reduce DNS lookups
A100 Avoid empty src or href
A100 Put JavaScript at bottom
Hello @mikeshecky !
To increase the page speed you can check these similar topics for more solutions:
– https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
– https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnkVapqhIHc
– https://www.xtechkr.com/optimize-newspaper-theme/
– Check those guides : https://web.dev/lcp/ – > https://www.sqlpac.com/en/documents/google-pagespeeds-lighthouse-6-new-features-lcp-cls.html -> > https://wp-rocket.me/google-core-web-vitals-wordpress/improve-cumulative-layout-shift
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/to-high-cumulative-layout-shift-in-mobile-theme/
Please check the tutorials from those platforms gt metrix and Google Pagespeed Insights and I’m sure you can increase the page speed.
Please note that page speed is not covered by the support team: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-support/
Thank you!
