Hello,
when I bought this theme I thought it would be smooth and fast, but after doing the google pagespeed test, it only got a really bad score… You can check it here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=bloomingcash.com&tab=desktop
What can I do about?
Hello alexvaltin,
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 to 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/
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/
Please keep in mind that at the moment, we cannot provide optimization services because this task involves time-consuming and we do not afford to do this, sorry! We only can provide support for basic theme settings.
If you are not aware of these steps which are needed to take in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because we cannot provide custom work at the moment, sorry!
Thanks for your understanding!
But in the description on themeforest you advertise the website as ultra fast and light weight but a score of 30 on pagespeed is nothing like that…
The theme is fast — but theme cannot manage your server settings, content you already have like giant unoptimized images, lack of gzip/deflate running, expiration headers, etc., which need to be done for ALL sites/themes.
Test one of your posts with GTMetrix.com to see actual help and recommendations if you’re new to WordPress.
