Tom Hubbard

Thanks, the last did the trick. Very strange that by default the theme overrides your WordPress choice of landing page.

That plugin is nice to know about as well.

Also, for the benefit of anyone else wondering, “RESPONSIVE” is a header image, easily removed.

I installed your plugin again. I tested on GMetrix again:

“Page Speed 92%, YSlow 89% — slightly worse. “

I removed your plugin again. I consider this issue resolved.

Sorry, didn’t understand.

Page Speed 92%, YSlow 89% — slightly worse. But that may have to do with how I have it set up.

Pretty much the same results from PageSpeed insights. Nice to know about GTmetrix though.

[marked as resolved]

Thanks Viktor!

I see now my confusion was with the alternate login, which I though I had changed from wp-admin to wp-login, which I confused with the file wp-login.php. I’m still a bit confused, but the problem is solved.

Please read the first line of my previous post. I didn’t include www.

My objective is to speed up the site pe4.me, which is small and has little traffic.

I see from your description of WP Fastest Cache (is this what you mean by “Cache Plugin?”) that it benefits sites with heavy traffic, but you also list

Performance Optimization
Generating static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog
Minify Html – You can decrease the size of page
Minify Css – You can decrease the size of css files
Enable Gzip Compression – Reduce the size of files sent from your server to increase the speed to which they are transferred to the browser.
Leverage browser caching – Reduce page load times for repeat visitors
Combine CSS – Reduce number of HTTP round-trips by combining multiple CSS resources into one
Combine JS

giving the impression that WP Fastest Cache offers all these things. So “Cache Plugin” (if you mean WP Fastest Cache) is not for optimizing a site, yet offers options for optimizing your site. So it simultaneously IS NOT and IS for optimizing a site?

If your plugin is not for optimizing a site — even as it offers optimization tools — I apologize for the misunderstanding. In any event, my site loads faster without it.

Installed and activated Autoptimize: 87/94

Emre,

As of my last post, there was nothing to fix. Regardless, I ran through some tests.

Here are my google Page Speed insights results. I have included other plugins as a matter of general interest.

(Mobile/desktop)

Initial: 80/91
Deactivated WP Super Cache: 81/91
Deactivated WP deferred javaScript: 80/91
Deactivated Async JS and CSS: 73/74
Activated Async JS and CSS: 73/74, 58/86 (server response time), 80/91
Installed WP Fastest Cache: 77/87
Deactivated WP Fastest Cache: 80/91

There appeared to be no formatting problem, but it appears that installing WP Fastest Cache slowed down my site (as did WP Super Cache). Perhaps there’s some plugin conflict happening.

Not in Safari, but works in Firefox.

Thanks, I did. It appears to be a Chrome-specific problem.

Changing your permalink options is fine if you know what you’re doing. But what are the implications and consequences to search engines? Aren’t you going to create a bunch of dead links that torpedo you search engine ranking?

The author of this plugin explains nothing; assumes you’re a WordPress expert. It’s not a question of “managing to get it set up;” it’s a question of wanting to know how and why such apparently unrelated demands are made. No other caching plugin prevents you from setting it up unless you meddle with your permalink settings.

I tried it again, and it is not creating this problem. Alas, I cannot change the rating. However, after installing it, my Page Speed Insights rating went from 78 to 78.

Kalyan, I can understand (sort of) people who buy a car, only to get it home, open the bonnet, and start messing with the engine. I am not such a person. I buy a car expecting to be able to drive it.

Why this should destroy only the landing page remains a mystery to me, but no, I installed it more than once, got the same result, and resolved my problem by removing this “wonderful plugin.”

That’s wonderful that there is an active support forum, and when I get time, perhaps I will create a sandboxed installation and experiment. I was working live, and WP Fastest Cache destroyed my site in real time.

Emre, the error I got was that all formatting was stripped from ONLY my landing page, as I said originally.