Tag-Cloud-Icon Slowing Down Site

Going through the forum, I found that this line is from the ratings feature, is that correct? The below line is adding almost 500ms of time onto my page speed which is quite problematic. How can this be optimized? If I turn off article rating will it stop this from loading and effecting the page speed on all my articles? Can I only enable it on specific posts since its not needed for recipes? (I have assets cleanup). How does removing this effect my SEO?

https://www.cuisineandtravel.com/wp-content/plugins/wpdiscuz/themes/default/css/fonts/sqr721c-webfont.woff2

Thank you!

Tag Groups doesn’t have a rating feature. You also mention a web font of “wpdiscuz”, which seems to be a plugin. I think you might be in the wrong forum.

On your mentioned page https://cuisineandtravel.com I don’t see that this png is loaded.

That PNG image might belong to a jQuery UI custom theme that you uploaded. To speed up image delivery the best solution would be to serve images from a CDN. (I think Jetpack, Cloudflare and others offer this, but that’s far beyond what Tag Groups is supposed to do.)

Hi Chris, please ignore the second post.

All my images are served from a CDN and are offloaded. This is an issue with the plugin. It is loading icons which are not used and it is slowing down my site.When you run my page through gtmetric you can see it on the waterfall under images and its taking close to a second to load it. When I try to use the default theme, its even worse.

This is showing under images and changing to a default color theme does not eliminate them, it adds two more items:
https://www.cuisineandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/tag-clouds-color/images/ui-icons_444444_256x240.png
https://www.cuisineandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/tag-clouds-color/images/ui-icons_ffffff_256x240.png

I also cannot optimize the plugin because for whatever reason, it is causing the cache files to be enormous so it has to be omitted from WP Rockets optimizing.

These two scripts have to be omitted from inline JS or it causes my site’s cache file to become enormous.
tagGroupsAccordiontaggroupscloudaccordion
tagGroupsTabstaggroupscloudtabs

I love this plugin but there has to be a way to figure out why its causing these issues or at least how to get rid of these icons from loading when they arent needed since I only use Tab & Accordion.

These files are in the “uploads” directory and they are not part of this plugin.

To get rid of them please follow these steps: Go to the Tag Groups Settings, Front End, Themes and Appearance and select one of the 6 upper options (“delta” and “aristo”). Save and clear your cache.

If inline JS becomes too big in the cache, you probably use a plugin (like Autoptimize) that collects inline scripts. Please disable the function that collects inline scripts.

PS: In the next release I will try to make some changes to reduce the size if a plugin is collecting JS code.

One more solution about the JS size: Please go to each of your tag clouds and make sure that you set the div_idparameter, like div_id="tag-cloud-1" (or in the Gutenberg block in the “Advanced Styling”). If you have more of them on one page, use a different name for each. If you don’t enter it manually, it will be chosen randomly and if your page cache refreshes often, this would lead to frequent changes.

Not sure what you mean, I just followed the instructions given. I have Tag Clouds Accordion in my Footer and Side Bar widget.This is the short code I use
[tag_groups_accordion orderby=count order=desc heightstyle= collapsible=1 active=1 mouseover=1 smallest=9 largest=15 include=1,5,3,2,8]

One shortcode could be

[tag_groups_accordion orderby=count order=desc heightstyle= collapsible=1 active=1 mouseover=1 smallest=9 largest=15 include=1,5,3,2,8 div_id=accordion-tag-cloud-1]

and the second one

[tag_groups_accordion orderby=count order=desc heightstyle= collapsible=1 active=1 mouseover=1 smallest=9 largest=15 include=1,5,3,2,8 div_id=accordion-tag-cloud-2]

The result is that div_id will not be generated automatically.

This did not seem to resolve the issue, it still fills up my caching file.

On your page https://www.cuisineandtravel.com/recipes/ I still see <div id="tag-groups-cloud-tabs-600698ea603f3" ... which looks very much like a random div_id.

Please post the shortcodes you use and confirm that you cleared the cache after you made your change.