[Plugin: WordPress Mobile Pack] WPMP loads slower than full site on BlackBerry

i’ve found the same thing here – takes a full 10-15 seconds on the front-end then loads lickitty split with a flat page. Not sure why a flat page is taking so long to load (my assumption is that the 10-15 seconds is the plugin processing the original page and stripping the elements from it before rendering the “optimized” page)

from (a) looking at my status bar and (b) the fact that my site consistently gets a bad grade on ready.mobi (here) it seems that as suspected – the entire original page is being downloaded FIRST then the mobile page is being loaded.. meaning the visitor is wasting bandwidth dl’ing images etc that they’ll never see.

If I’m right, is there any way to fix this? Is it already in the works? Am I totally wrong?

@godkid I can see from the HTML and headers that you are using W3 Total Cache. The cache is not compatible with any mobile plugin out of the box.

You can get W3 Total Cache to work with mobile plugins, see my blog post, Getting W3 Total cache to work with WordPress Mobile Pack.

I have been talking with Frederick, the author of W3TC and we can expect an update that will be more friendly to mobile devices soon.

@djyeo1 Are you using any cache plugin? If you are using W3TC read my other reply, if you are using Super Cache, you should update to the latest version of our plugin and that should do the trick. Otherwise, could you tell me a little more? What’s your site address? Which other plugins are you using?

Thank you

@andreatrasatti

I actually have it working alongside W3TC – page cache and minify rejecting mobile user agents (using the default set which actually seems to be consistent with the list in switcher.php of this plugin) – I just wondered why if the rejection was happening is my score still so low?

@godkid
I am looking at the HTML generated and it seems to be a mix-up of what the Mobile Pack would produce (for example the declaration of XHTML for mobile), but then there are still a lot of style tags for custom layout and javascript such as prototype.

Could you please go to your “mobile theme” settings ( /wp-admin/themes.php?page=wpmp_theme_theme_admin ) and make sure the “remove media” and “Simplify styling” options are checked. These should remove all the extra CSS and Javascript that make the blackberry slow and mobiReady unhappy. As a rule I would say that if you expect any non-iPhone and non-Android visitors you should turn those on, if you only want to serve very-high-end devices, then you may turn them off and take advantage of plugins that add style and javascript.

Let me know how it goes with those options turned on and then we’ll take it from there.