LikeYourLife

Hey Andrew, I already have a plugin to do that plus more.

I actually just found the answer. I had W3 Total Cache plus Better WordPress Minify. They must have been clashing in the background because when I removed BWM my requests dropped and I’ve now only got 1 file in the above-the-fold, probably the minified file from W3.

Thanks!

Yeah, it would be great if something like that were possible. Or even a theme option for high-res/low-res. If high-res is selected, it uses thumb_medium of 520×245, and if low-res reverts back to the resized version.

I’m going with the ‘low-res’ option as currently I’m wasting about 230kb of page size because all the small thumbnails go from 160×160 to 80×80, as well as six or so of the medium ones.

Actually, I just installed Simple Image Sizes (plugin) and it has found the two sizes I’m noticing. For some reason thumb-small is 160×160 but the theme is resizing them to 80×80. The thumb-medium is 520×245 but these are being resized to 272×148.

Should I change 160×160 to 80×80? Where does 160×160 get used if it’s not the thumbnail size? And the same for thumb-medium?

Also, is there any point having WordPress create its standard image sizes as well?

Thanks!

Hey Damon, I’m checking on the www as this is how I’ve configured my WordPress. Should I be checking just the domain ie. likeyourlife.com?

Evan, thanks for the reply. Site is https://www.likeyourlife.com – if you can see something I would be eternally grateful. Every picture is around 33kb, about 520 x 245. I am aware that these are being resized smaller and can shave some kb off them, but I wouldn’t think 33kb per image would be overkill, would it?

I think my cheap webhost is also partially to blame as sometimes the first time to byte is around 1.5 seconds (1263ms as tested a minute ago) although Google PageSpeed says it’s around 0.46 seconds.

I’m getting 89 on the PageSpeed portion of GTMetrix, and 93 on Yslow so it would appear that I’m reasonably optimized.

Thanks heaps guys!
Thanks heaps!

Awesome Lester, thanks for the alternative. I will try reactivating, but I did check my schedules and nothing was scheduled for that time. Plus I think my backups are only about 3-4mb so it shouldn’t be massive.

Hey Andrew, it’s the Hueman theme. I thought I posted this in the support forum for it?

Thanks!

I disabled W3 Total Cache, and enabled the Falcon cache but noticed barely any difference compared to having W3 disabled…

With W3 enabled, my share bar and pop up bar loaded a split second after the rest of the pages content.

With W3 disabled, and Falcon enabled, my share bar and pop up bar loaded about a second or two after the rest of the content.

Am I supposed to do something else? Or is it the fact that Cloudflare CDN isn’t being used now as that was part of W3?

Thanks!

Doesn’t matter, figured out that it’s a caching issue. Guess I just have to deal with it.

Thanks!

I just previewed my page in Firefox and used an inspector tool, I’m not sure which one. I selected the content text, and it showed the rule under #content .single p with a line-spacing at 16px. I changed this in the tool and it reflected correctly on the screen by doubling this value to 32px.

It told me to go to line 97 of the style.css and I changed the code. Refreshed my page and no change. Then I changed it to 64px and it changed. Then it wouldn’t change back for ages. Even when I view the style.css through this tool it still reflects the old value, even though I know I’ve updated the main css file.

Is there a lag between when a css change will reflect? If so I’ll have to use this tool to simulate the changes and then make them to the main css file.

Thanks!

Hi Andrew,

It was the default theme that came loaded with WordPress when I installed it. It’s called ‘World’.

Thanks!