Site has not become faster

  • Resolved terryally

    (@terryally)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    I am unable to find a solution in the forum for my issue.

    I’ve installed the free version of W3 Total Cache and as it has recommended, also purchased a subscription to Stackpath. I have tried to follow all the instruction that I can find and through a couple of website crashes during installation, the main problem that I turned to W3 Total Cache to resolve still remains.

    My site is still traveling a little slower than a snail. I am using Goodle PageSpeed Insights to test the speed. The same issues which PageSpeed Insights before W3 Total Cache was installed are the same issues that remain afterwards.

    There are too many of them to list here but can easily be viewed at https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.natureisle.news%2F

    Above is the current situation. I guess I have two questions:

    1) Have I got the wrong plugin/software for the job at hand
    2) If I have not got the wrong software, do you have a service that can make this right?

    I am hesitant spending any more money to subscribe to your Pro version or other CDN features if I am barking up the wrong tree.

    Thank you.

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @terryally

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
    The only thing that Google Page speed is showing that can be achieved with W3 Total Cache is to eliminate render-blocking resources, in your case CSS but that is available after upgrading to Pro.
    As for Remove unused JavaScript and Remove unused CSS, W3 Total cache cannot do anything about it as this depends on the number of WordPress plugins loading unused JavaScript on your page. As W3 Total Cache minifies those files it already reduces the number, and the potential solution is to manually add JS files to minify as that would create only one file. And of course, Google will complain about that too and reduce the score as much as it can.
    And of course, no plugin can handle external resources because there are not being served from your server.
    What Google Page speed also suggests is to Serve images in next-gen formats. This is also something that W3 Total Cache does not do and for that, you can install some image optimization plugin.
    Overall your score is great and I’ve taken some screenshots from Google Page speed and GtMetrix and try are showing the awesome Desktop score. The mobile score however is low and this is due to the mentioned issues, but the overall user experience in both mobile and desktop is great.
    As you can see I’ve attached the screenshots and as I highly doubt that the score is the same as before you installed and configured W3 Total Cache Please completely disable W3 Total cache and share some screenshots of the test results when the plugin is disabled.
    Thank you!

    Thread Starter terryally

    (@terryally)

    Hello Marko,

    Thanks for your response.

    At the time of posting the scores were not as good as you found. Between then and your response, I did a lot of tinkering with your configuration as well as removing some plugins.

    I also included some functions to defer all JS and non-critical CSS. The scores then improved (desktop to 90).

    The site has become faster now on both mobile and desktop even though the scores are terrible today ie 56 for mobile and 86 for desktop.

    I’ll keep monitoring and tinkering. 94% of my audience use mobile devices so I want to get that much faster.

    Regards
    Terry

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by terryally.
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