newsmomcom

Hi Frank,

I cleared all my cache again deactivated all my plugins, and reactivated them and it seems to have cleared up most of the issues.

However, the primary remaining issue is that the icons on the top menu bar are missing. I use the Genesis News-Pro theme which – I believe – still utilized a dashicons code similar to this which is now missing from my functions.php

//Enqueue the Dashicons script
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘load_dashicons_front_end’ ); function load_dashicons_front_end() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘dashicons’ ); }

The thought is that maybe it’s due to minification or combining the JS plugin.

Any thoughts?

My site is Newsmom.com.

Thanks so much for your help!

I believe so.

Let me clarify, I FIRST cleared the cache through your plugin and that’s when the problems began. I have since cleared browser cache etc. and they still exist.

Frank, I did that. That is what caused the problem.

Please advise.

Thanks for the feedback gentlemen!

So, I’ve decided to stay with NetSol temporally as I am still building out my site and I only have a few thousand visitors a day max… but I plan on migrating to a better host next year.

In the meantime, I was hoping you could help me with a few remaining speed/plugin issues.

1) Do I need Both W3C & Autoptmize?

In the interest of reducing my number of plugins, do I need to use both Autoptimize and W3TC? I’ve been told that W3C should be the only plugin in need…

But when I disable Autoptmize and enable minify on W3C instead, my load times increase and I get the following errors. I’m I doing something wrong or do I need both plugins for full optimization?

Remove render-blocking JavaScript:
? https://newsmom.com/…00/M9bPKixNLarUMYYydHMz04sSS1L1cjPzAA.js
? https://newsmom.com/…fn6WcX6RanFBfl5xZllqbq5qXmlaLK5iZl5AA.js
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
? https://newsmom.com/…2Yr1oCTyjoe-Ff-eHfgIce281iauRyO_54AQ.css

(NOTE: I do not minify HTML on either because it strips the “enter” spaces in my excerpts on my home page and I do not have the time to go tough hundreds of posts to add
to the first paragraph of each one)

2) Move Javascript to Footer

One of network solutions’ suggestions is to “Move Javascript to Footer.”
I’ve been reviewing support threads for W3TC, and I see that it was supposed to be added to a recent upgrade, but I cannot figure out how to do it in the settings.

Can you point me in the right direction?

3) “turn database and object caching off”

Per your suggestion AJ @ WpFASTER.org I turned off database & object caching in W3TC… however, oddly the suggestion I got from NetSol seems to contradict your logic (though I am inclined to trust you)
Their suggestion:

“Optimize Database Tables (optionally using WP-Optimize Plugin)”

Does this simply do the same thing as database caching on W3C? Or is it something different?

4) Other suggestions from NetSol:

Can you comment on the effectiveness of these other suggestions from Netsol? Are any of these worth hiring someone to implement? I currently have a 2 second Google page speed server response time.

(NOTE: Should I be concerned that upgrading the PHP might break my site?)

a. Remove Unnecesary PHP Executions and DB Calls
b. Upgrade PHP from 5.4 to 5.6
c. Enable GZIP Compression
d. We would also recommend having your developers look into AJAX, which would allow asynchronous loading of different page elements. This does not directly help server speeds, but creates a better user interface by not needing to reload the entire page with each request.

Thanks again for all of your help.

thanks anyway ??

Ok, so this is strange. I just switched back from “Inline all CSS” to “Inline and Defer CSS?” and the “Prioritize visible content” warnign has gone away!

Thanks Frank,

Re Bounce rate, I just brought that up as an FYI. I am a blog/news site, so by default i have a high bounce rate.

I notice in your FAQ you mention sites with a high bounce rate (like blogs) may want to inline all css.

If you have a high bounce rate and a low number of average pages per visit, inlining CSS looks like a good idea.

I was just wondering, considering that I have a high bounce rate, and I have a slow mobile page speed score, do you think “Inline and Defer CSS?” or “Inline all CSS?” would be a better option to help get rid of the “Prioritize visible content” warning and/or speed up my site?

I deactivated inline and defer and activated inline all css… but no change. Thoughts?

I have a high bounce rate. what would you suggest?

Should i deactivate that?

Opps! Sorry, i thought i did!

P.S. this is the code i had to add to get the dash icons back on mobile. they were stripped when I downloaded the plugin.

Is there something here I can add to the exclusion list?

//Enqueue the Dashicons script
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘load_dashicons_front_end’ ); function load_dashicons_front_end() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘dashicons’ ); }

Thanks again!! I really appreciate your help.

Thanks Frank,

Now google is telling me I have “3 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.”

I’m a novice. Can you tell me what exactly I copy/paste into the exclusion list for these three? the actual text? Thanks so much for your help!

https://newsmom.com/wp-includes/css/dashicons.min.css?ver=4.3.1
https://newsmom.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_c725bba7c94551b69962dcc2c1f6aeee.css
https://newsmom.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_39a5293217f4cb42b42f085314ba8447.css

Hi Again frank, also i’m getting this error on my page speed test now.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/newsmom.com/3WxfGDqt

RECOMMENDATION GRADE TYPE PRIORITY
Inline small CSS D (67) CSS HIGH
What’s this mean?
The following external resources have small response bodies. Inlining the response in HTML can reduce blocking of page rendering.
https://newsmom.com/ should inline the following small resources:

https://newsmom.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_39a5293217f4cb42b42f085314ba8447.css

Hi Frank,

Here’s an image with HTML minify on
https://newsmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/funky-excerpts.png

Here’s what they look like right now with html unchecked (scroll down to the bottom of the page and look at the last 4 excerpts)
https://newsmom.com/reviews-for-parents/