Hi there,
Since the last 2 updates the site is performing excessively slowly. The Google PageSpeed Insights score has dropped from 60’s/70’s to incredibly low – 5.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=theirishplace.com
Any advice how to fix this. I have tagDiv Speed Booster installed… the site runs through cloudflare as well..
Hi,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized.
Notice that 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. Also, 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 are not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit our requirements.
Unfortunately, our theme does not have such an option to minify the style.css file and we cannot recommend any plugins with this functionality because is not tested with our theme. For minifying this file, we are using CloudFlare for our demo and works fine. If you want to read other views from our users, please check this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
Also, check all of your Ad Spots and if you have entered any suspicious code through them, remove all of them and check the results without them.
One of our top members here on the forum wrote his own optimization tutorial here:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/ and here -> https://www.infophilic.com/get-almost-100-pagespeed-newspaper-theme/
Basically, these are the theme requirements
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/
Another useful guide for increasing the page speed can be found here -> https://kinsta.com/blog/google-pagespeed-insights/
Lately, Google Page Speed Insight seems to change the layout and is not always reliable.
For minify CSS you can use this online tool -> https://www.minifier.org/
Thanks for your understanding!
Catalin, I’m undergoing the same thing. I’m curious if there’s something you guys could do on your end to make it less slow in future updates or is it solely up to us to make it faster?
Hi kytmagic,
Please notice that we have good reports from our customers which were tested and followed these guides. Also, you can take a look over these topics from here ->
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/full-guide-how-to-optimize-newspaper-for-the-new-pagespeed-insights/ -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/, useful guides from our happy customers.
Thank you!
