Compression and Minifying HTML

[kawpoosta]

We are trying to enable compression and minify the html as was suggested to us to increase the speed of this theme… but when we do it breaks the site.

Any suggestions?

It’s unbearably slow…

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi @kawpoosta

We get super fast page loading times here, it may be down to the content on your website or your server.

– Kyle

[kawpoosta]

Hi Kyle,

There is nothing unusual about our content and just for the sake of trial, our hosting company ramped up our server to the max and the results were the same.

This is a quote from them “I can tell you for sure that the reason the page is loading slowly and getting poor grades on these tests is because of a badly optimized wordpress and to some degree apache.”

Google page speed test mentions “enable compression” as the number one recommendation.

It also mentions to minify css, javascript, and html.

We have also tried to enable w3 total cache.

All of these break the website.

Can you please help us enable all these changes?

We’re happy to provide backend access for someone experienced to take a look.

We really appreciate it.

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Please show us your website URL so we can investigate 🙂

[kawpoosta]

sproutliving.com

thank you!

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi there,

Seems your page size is 4.1mb, that’s most of the issue – it should really be 1-2mb MAX.

Please install and enable the Better WordPress Minify and WP Super Cache plugins, that should speed it up quite a bit!

Please let us know what “breaks” when installing BWM? Make sure you have the revolution slider set to load jQuery in the footer in Revolution Slider > Global Settings.

Hope that helps.

– Ed

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[kawpoosta]

— Just tried Better WordPress Minify – doesn’t seem to be a good idea – it completely crashes the whole site design.

— [1/21/14, 5:51:17 PM] Mark Malinsky: thats happened before
[1/21/14, 5:51:26 PM] Mark Malinsky: they asked… if you can give more details about that

— Weird.
Well, I don’t think more detail can be provided. A site either crashes or doesn’t.
The plugin makes it crash.
That’s all.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi @kawpoosta,

It’s likely because of a plugin you have installed.

If you drop a link/login here I’ll happily take a look for you.

– Ed

[kawpoosta]

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[Swift Ideas – Ed]

@kawpoosta – I’ve enabled JS minification, you have too many plugins with added css to enable the CSS minification.

For caching, try WP Super Cache.

– Ed

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[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Ed was referring to your plugins which come with styling of the elements they add. Which means they add css files to the theme.

For Neighborhood you’d probably need the Revolution Slider and WooCommerce, depending on if you need either. Other than that you don’t need much.

Cheers