Can you help me figure out how to enhance any speed issues.

My website is a Life Style theme and it takes a long time to load.

I have used w3 cache, minify, page caching, image caching.

Give the amount of images that load on startup from the native theme, Is there a setup that you have used that has worked?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Max,

I join the conversation that you had with DoctorT.

I experienced speed issues too with the Writer theme.
I tested it and noticed that the First Byte Time is 1797 ms insted of a 147 ms Target First Byte Time.

I use W3 total cache, minify, smush and W3 Super cache.

Can you help ?
Thanks

Hi Max,

I looked over with firebug and noticed 2 errors in the loading :

- An image named contact_social.png that creates a 404 error
- A google map js script that are called (during 1 full second) => I won't use google map, how could I suppress it and make the web page load faster ?

nb : please see the screenshot attached for details

Thanks

Hi,
- An image named contact_social.png that creates a 404 error

The only place where the contact_social.png image is used is in style.css and there the link is correct for sure. If you would go to yoursite/wp-content/themes/writer/images/icons/contact-social.png you would see that the image is there. Maybe you made some changes and added the image somewhere else as the generated link which is visible in firebug is wrong.

- A google map js script that are called (during 1 full second) => I won't use google map, how could I suppress it and make the web page load faster ?

You can remove the script from theme_add.php file (library\tfuse_mods\thememodules\includes) this is the code:

wp_register_script( 'gmap', $template_directory.'/js/jquery.gmap.min.js' );
        wp_enqueue_script( 'gmap' );

Cheers,
Max.

Hi,
please provide ftp details and I would check. I'm sure that the theme doesn't request this file anywhere else, so it may be an issue in one of your files.

Thanks.

Hi,
I finally found where the problem was. As I said, is not a theme problem. You added this code in FuseFramework -> General -> General Settings -> Custom CSS:

.social-mail {
	background:url(images/icons/contact_social.png) 0 0 no-repeat}

.social-twitter {
	background:url(images/icons/contact_social.png) 0 -24px no-repeat}

.social-skype {
	background:url(images/icons/contact_social.png) 0 -48px no-repeat}

.social-facebook {
	background:url(images/icons/contact_social.png) 0 -72px no-repeat}

Cheers,
Max.

Hi,
the problem is that the image link that you added in Writer - Post media fields, doesn't exist. If you would add this link in your browser it would return a 404 error. So, you need to upload the image again or enter the correct image link.

Cheers,
Max.