@Radu – thanks for font info – I’ll give it a try. As far as fonts go, I like web safe fonts – more of a design practice/preference than technical argument though.

@vidapropria – with images – I got in the habit of using GIMP to compress my images before I post them – the utility is free and I found it by reading the following Google best practices doc (I am not sure what the rules are in this forum about posting links – but I figure a Google best practices link is OK)

for blogs – of course the images need to look good – but certainly don’t need to be over – say – 50k in most cases for featured images – I try to keep them under 30k as a general rule…(again – just my 2 cents)

here’s the Google link

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/payload#CompressImages

another well thought out response – thanks Christopher. If we could have a check box to just use web safe fonts and not use any google fonts, would that not also remove the css loading?

I only see any option to use google fonts, and personally I would prefer to use non-google fonts.

not a huge issue I guess – although it is fairly common for themes to provide the option between web safe vs. google fonts.

cheers…

btw – I would also would vote for web safe fonts option!

Hi – just my 2 cents –

before doing anything (theme out of box on new shared server) – had page speeds of 45 mobile and 58 desktop

then, added gz deflate code to htaccess file, and configured W3 total cache – and now my google page speeds are: mobile 75 and desktop 92 – and I am fine with it

In my opinion, for shared servers – wordpress isn’t going to get much faster than that…

the gz deflate had the most increase (I forgot to track the exact increase – but it was over 20) – if someone needs to know how to do this – I would recommend asking support on your hosting site –

I added back “addthis” plugin – and desktop speed only went down to 91 – but for me totally worth the “add this” value…

I should also note that I currently do not run ads on my sites (still developing content) but I agree that will slow it down a bit (that was mentioned)

One thing I would like to know if the theme could clean this up though (from google speed test)

Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:

http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A300%2C400%2C600%2C700&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Cgreek-ext%2Cgreek%2Cvietnamese%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu%3A300%2C400%2C500%2C700%2C300italic%2C400italic%2C500italic%2C700italic&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Cgreek-ext%2Cgreek%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans%3A400%2C700%2C400italic&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald%3A400%2C300%2C700&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&ver=3.7.1
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Condensed%3A300italic%2C400italic%2C700italic%2C400%2C300%2C700&subset=latin%2Ccyrillic-ext%2Cgreek-ext%2Cgreek%2Cvietnamese%2Clatin-ext%2Ccyrillic&ver=3.7.1

Hi – I am just building a site and admittedly not as well read on this topic – but I get the hCard author problem too – however, with the Google structured data test, I pass the authorship and publisher validation – but I get the hCard in the following area:

Extracted structured data
hatom-feed
hatom-entry:
entry-title: Orlando Email Marketing Services
updated: December 4, 2013
bookmark:
name: Orlando Email Marketing Services
rel: bookmark
url: http://www.greggonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Email-Marketing-Services.jpg
Error: Missing required hCard “author”.

To my understanding, this is not a big deal (for me) because this area is for things like tagging a recipe or review, etc….

Is my understanding correct? Or is this something I need to worry about.

the above worked for me with after including the ” !important ” – the setting that seems to work best for me was:

.td-full-layout .td-sub-footer-wrap .td-grid-wrap,
.td-boxed-layout .td-sub-footer-wrap .container .td-grid-wrap {
padding: 15px 0 5px 0 !important;
}

If you do not see the changes take effect – try ” Ctrl – F5 ” to refresh – or try clearing history…