Hello developers,
I am currently facing an issue with my website performance and really need some help.
A few months ago, I purchased the Newspaper WordPress theme and started using one of its templates. I actually tested multiple templates before finalizing the current one, but even after trying a lot of optimizations, the website is still loading very slowly, especially the blog pages.
I have already tried several cache plugins, optimization tools, image compression, and other performance improvements, but nothing seems to be fixing the issue properly so far.
It would really help if someone could take a look at the website and suggest what might be causing the problem. If possible, any direct optimization support or performance improvements from your side would be greatly appreciated.
I genuinely want to make the website fast and smooth for users, so any help or guidance would mean a lot.
Thanks.
Hi,
Sure, I’ll take a look and try to provide suggestions. I believe this is your website https://product-strategist.com/
I checked a few post pages and for me the loading speed is usually below 1 second https://prnt.sc/k0jMr6tL1b_Z That’s certainly not very slow. I see you are using Litespeed which is a very good plugin. You could try the option to delay the JS https://docs.litespeedtech.com/lscache/lscwp/pageopt/#js-settings-tab this one here https://prnt.sc/-qSiTgI_hUMf which would make it faster, but it could also cause problems with how the page looks or works, please test it carefully.
The images are optimized and they are lazyloaded, which is very good.
One suggestion I would make is to delete the standard pack plugin -> https://prnt.sc/ARUZDej2rw2C this is not required for the theme demo you installed. Deleting it it stops resources from it from being loaded unnecessarily.
Maybe also try delaying the loading of the mega-menu, there is an option for that -> https://prnt.sc/y0F9L98R-gEf
Also try delaying the loading of the footer -> https://prnt.sc/hGvAdiY8wm3I
If you try a few of these there should be improvements. But there could also be issues, so please test carefully.
Thank you!
Hey, first of all, thank you so much for reaching out. I really appreciate your help.
But this concern is not regarding my older website, Product Strategies. It is actually regarding my new live website, Product-Wiki.com. Here’s the website URL: https://product-wiki.com/
The main issue is specifically with the blog pages. Honestly, the homepage performance is not a major concern because most traffic directly lands on blogs through search. So my focus is mainly on improving the loading speed and performance of the blog pages.
I have already tried multiple optimizations from my end, including image compression, reducing the first-load image size, lazy loading, caching tools, and several other performance tweaks. But somehow the pages still feel slow and heavy.
So if possible, could you please have a look and suggest some improvements? Maybe there are theme-level issues, unnecessary scripts, CSS/JS loading problems, or other optimizations that I might be missing. Any help in reducing the overall page weight and improving loading speed would genuinely help me a lot.
Thanks again.
And here are a few example blog pages you can review for reference. Of course, you can inspect any page on the website, but my primary concern is specifically the loading speed and performance of the blog pages.
Examples:
https://product-wiki.com/12-tips-how-to-stop-doomscrolling-on-social-media-easiest-way/
https://product-wiki.com/what-is-google-gemini-omni-ai-how-to-use-it/
I’m mainly trying to make the blog pages load as fast as possible because that is where the majority of the traffic lands from search engines. Even if the homepage or some other sections are slightly heavy, that is still manageable for me. But the blog pages should ideally be lightweight and extremely fast.
So if possible, could you please suggest some practical changes or optimizations that might genuinely help improve the speed? If required, I can also share the list of plugins, cache settings, optimization setup, or anything else that may help in debugging the issue.
Please do let me know if you need anything from my side.
Most of the things I suggested apply to that website as well.
I checked the posts you mentioned. While they are pretty long posts, the caching does the job very nicely. You are getting loading times of half a second on all the posts from the website that I checked -> https://prnt.sc/FwCdgaVmQZUX That’s a great job. Or do they load differently for you? Maybe after clearing the cache the first visit will be slower, but once the cache is created there is a consistent loading time of half a second.
What I could add to the above, if you are using popups to load other pages or custom content, those can also be delayed from loading -> https://prnt.sc/9hVlEidCHOFD This can matter a lot. So delaying the mega-menus, delaying the popups, delaying the footer. This provides a faster initial loading speed. But please test after using those options, to see if there are any problems.
Thank you!
Thanks a lot, by the way. Your previous suggestions really helped improve my website’s performance.
I have another question regarding Google Search results. When someone searches on Google, I usually see the website name first, then the URL, followed by the page title and meta description.
For example, when searching for Apple products, Google often displays “Apple” as the site name instead of just showing the domain. In my case, I want my website, product-wiki.com, to appear as “Product Wiki” (with proper capitalization and spacing) rather than displaying only the domain name.
I’ve already tried changing some settings on my website, but Google is still showing the domain instead of the site name I want.
Could you explain how Google determines the site name in search results and what I need to do to get “Product Wiki” displayed properly?
That seems to be quite a common issue, there are guides about it https://rankmath.com/kb/display-site-name-in-search-results/
According to that guide Google checks in 4 places.
1. The homepage title tag -> https://prnt.sc/6MZfvcGkSovy
2. The homepage h1 tag. I see there is no h1 in the page. This can be a problem, each page should have a h1. By default it’s the logo, did you disable it perhaps? -> https://prnt.sc/KnqrjwKaG4SN Or if you want to have a different h1 please add it in the page.
3. The open graph site name, this one -> https://prnt.sc/wY_k_Ztn0YDn
4. The name from the structured data -> https://prnt.sc/GN0VVV21eREh
All these 4 should be the same from what I know, and there should definitely be a h1 in the page. However, this doesn’t guarantee that Google will display the name instead of the URL. They say that it can appear, not that it will appear https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names
Hope this helps.
Thank you!
yeah i saw that, even i checked in settings, theme customization everywhere, its “Product Wiki” but i dont know why my blogs on google are still showing “product-wiki.com” as website name
thanks for your help though, appreciate it
Maybe it will change eventually, but it’s not something that you can directly control, it is up to Google. My only suggestion is to consider adding a h1 in the homepage, it still hasn’t got one.
Thank you!
