Hello,
I am using the Newspaper theme for mobilehub.ro. The theme looks great when customized, and we want to keep it for the long term. However, the main issue preventing us from using it until now is the optimization. With almost any other theme, we can achieve scores that pass Web Vitals, but unfortunately, with this theme, we cannot.
Below, I’ve included a screenshot showing what we see when using the Newspaper theme, along with certain LiteSpeed settings that should facilitate passing Web Vitals or at least getting close to an acceptable score.
We are using fairly standard templates with minor optimizations, ensuring we don’t include anything that could slow down the website.
Unfortunately, this score impacts our visitors’ experience, and we absolutely need to fix it. We want our site to perform very quickly, and we are running on a LiteSpeed server.
Surely there are other users using LiteSpeed who have managed to pass Web Vitals. If anyone here can share their settings, I would be very grateful.
In the meantime, given LiteSpeed’s popularity among users—thanks to its free plugin and excellent compatibility with other themes—could you please let me know the best settings that the tagDiv team has tested with this theme?
If there is no way to pass Web Vitals with LiteSpeed, what other configuration would you recommend? I have read all the guides suggested on this forum and external sites referenced by tagDiv team members, but I still haven’t been able to pass Web Vitals with this theme. It’s a bit frustrating knowing there are sites in your niche that load instantly, and you can’t achieve the same.
Thank you!
Hi,
I see the website is very fast, on desktop the score is perfect. But while the mobile scoring method is very strict, the result is pretty good https://prnt.sc/irmIopXWJmwT The actual speed is impressive https://prnt.sc/fjbzluyvlGzr
Have you tried this option to delay the footer load https://prnt.sc/cK5eSqf5Clcw This may increase the score by reducing the DOM size.
I see that some images are served in webp, but not all of them https://prnt.sc/JMXIC9rG1jE7 I suggest checking to make sure that all the images are converted to webp.
Also there seems to be no lazyload active on the website https://prnt.sc/Qvvj6foUkjrr I suggest activating the litespeed lazyload, in the media settings. In case there are issues with the images after enabling it, I suggest deactivating the pone from the theme https://prnt.sc/rdDEmi_aHSeS
I’ll check the website more, and try to make more suggestions. In the meantime please try what I suggested so far, so we can see how the website performs.
Thank you!
Hello,
Thank you very much for your answers, I will follow your advice, also, if you delay the footer, I think it will be a problem for the google crawler and it will no longer see important links like about us, contact, privacy… that’s why we are quite reluctant about that feature.
It also helps us a lot if we can also receive a set of settings for css, js, and others from the litespeed cache.
Thanks!
Sorry for the delay.
You may have a point about the footer lazyload. However, to know for sure I suggest doing it like this.
Activate the footer lazyload, then clear all the caching, also CSS and JS.
Using the URL inspection tool from Google test the homepage https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289?hl=en
Check what Google sees in the homepage, like this https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289?hl=en#view_screenshot or there should also be a “View crawled page” link to see the HTML.
If the footer content is there, then there is no problem.
In terms of CSS and JS settings, I see you are already minifying and combining the resources. But I don’t think the delay JS option is active https://prnt.sc/33MTHwnBWFFQ Were there issues after activating it perhaps? That setting helps a lot with the score, but can also break some things.
It usually takes some time to make the website as fast as possible. The best case scenario is to activate every possible optimization setting from the theme and from the litespeed plugin. This can result in visual or functionality issues. Then it is about tuning the options, excluding resources that break or depend on others, etc. It can take a lot of time and testing.
Thank you!
