Extremely slow even after install and configuration

WP Super Cache does only one (major) thing. Full-page caching. Everything else needs to be done using alternative plugins or methods. For example, to enable compression using mod_deflate on Apache, please see the example config at https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-apache/blob/master/dist/.htaccess#L709-L774 . I hope that helps.

Hi Pothi!

Thanks for your reply! it does help.

After testing the entire example config, the results were pretty bad (putting the entire code with no modification). I still had 50% on PageSpeed Insights.

I did some research and put together a few statements that got me up to to 73%. That’s the best I could do.

I am attaching here the code I am using in case of any comments or if it could be useful to someone.

Thanks for your help and have a good one.

***PLEASE BARE IN MIND I KNOW NOTHING – THIS WAS JUST TRIAL AND ERROR :-)***

.httaccess BEFORE “# BEGIN WordPress”:

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access 1 year”
ExpiresDefault “access 2 days”

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

## Cache One year for image files ###

# One year for image files
<filesMatch “.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=31536000, public”
</filesMatch>
# One month for css and js
<filesMatch “.(css|js)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=2628000, public”
</filesMatch>

## Defer parsing of JavaScript ##?

<FilesMatch “\.css$”>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
Header set Content-type “text/css”
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch “\.js$”>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
Header set Content-type “application/javascript”
</FilesMatch>

### Cache GZIP Compression ##

## Mod DEFLATE ##

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
<filesMatch “\.(js|css|html|php)$”>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</filesMatch>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

</IfModule>

Some suggestions:

1. Try Autoptimize Plugin (which is superb). It can clear up 3 main parameters there. (defer JS, remove query strings, CSS minification, concatenation). Plus reduces the number of requests by a great deal.

2. See if enabling gzip of .WOFF font file helps. GTMetrix says you can save 23 kb there. Or load fontawesome font from global CDN. It can be quicker.

Once you’ve done this next step is to re-test the site and then look at the waterfall report there.

Thanks for your response,

1. I’ve actually tried the Autoptimize Plugin and got a good diference in performance.

2. I’ve added / changed this for the mod_deflate (code below).

I think I’ve reached the best, I cannot defer the java as the theme is not working properly.
So I consider myself OK with the performance. If any comments on your side let me know.

Thanks guys for the help. And I wish this is useful to others.

# ———————————————————————–
# Defining MIME types to ensure the web server actually knows about them.
# ———————————————————————–
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType application/javascript js
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot
AddType application/x-font-ttf ttf ttc
AddType font/opentype otf
AddType application/x-font-woff woff
AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
AddEncoding gzip svgz
</Ifmodule>

# ———————————————————————–
# Compressing output.
# ———————————————————————–
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon image/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype
</Ifmodule>