Not w3c validated? Also, huge database

[cryx]

Hi, I have two questions.

First question
The first question is regarding the w3c validation. As seen here https://validator.w3.org/nu/?showsource=yes&doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bilvardsexperten.se%2F

There are some elements that isn’t closed(?) and it complains about attributes from the revslider (I think) are too close to each other. That’s weird, never knew the validator were that nit-picking. Could you help point me in the right direction. Is this something that is known or have I caused this? I have all my plugins and theme up to date (updated yesterday).

Second question
I know this might be a bit out of the scope for your support. But it would be nice if you knew what could be the problem just out of the top of your heads.
The site is very slow, especially in the backend which I of course think is related to the huge wp_options table. I’ll admit, I have a couple of plugins, but all of them are important, ranging from WooCommerce to User Role Editor, BridgeDD with phpbb forum (which is instantly fast btw, so it’s not that)…

I’ve read up on Google that so called “transients” seemed to be the culprit as to why the table get’s so huge. However, I downloaded a plugin that removed all of them (there were only like 4000 rows, which was around 4kb in size) so that didn’t help at all. Now I’m kinda stumped. What should I do? I’ve tried almost every database optimizer tool in existence and nothing is helping me. :/

[florianibe]

Hi cryx,

i have some validator problems too: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kuechenshop-a-z.de

Its not normal that spaces of each element are not set and the meta tags have an mistake?

swiftideas, can you fix it in an fast update?

Florian

[David Martin – Support]

Hi @cryx,

1) The spacing error issue is not something we can do anything about as such, however the browser can interpret this with/without the spacing so you can ignore that. If any div’s were missing or not closed the entire site would look broken even with just one missing.

2) This could be a hosting issue, are you on a shared hosting plan? You could ask your host for a report as to what is causing the slowdown. I would recommend you move to WP-Engine, they have a very good reputation for speed and helping you improve the site performance.

Broadly speaking, you have a lot of plugins active. I suggest you update all plugins and deactivate all that you really do not need.

Thanks,
David.

[cryx]

1. Yeah, well that depends. The browser can be smart and close the divs so it doesn’t get broken.

2. It’s a Swedish top hosting company. I can call them and check once more if there is anything they could do to speed up the site, but I doubt it. I think it’s the platform itself, the transients and stuff. I’m gonna look into that WP-engine. Thanks.

[florianibe]

Sorry David but the demo version of neighborhood has some validator problems too: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fneighborhood.swiftideas.net%2F

Can you check this?

The speed of this theme is ok. I test it on a few ways and with normal use of 23total cache i can get a ranking of 85+ on google page speed. For such a multi purpose is it ok. Use a CDN and all problems are away. 😉

I hope you can fix the validator issues.

FLorian

[David Martin – Support]

Hi Florian,

The demo site is likely a couple of versions behind the latest, that could cause some of the unclosed warnings. The social network warnings are simply becuase we have not add a full URL for the social network.

Thanks,
David

[cryx]

Well, as a web designer we strive for excellence to give our customers a website with clean code and good w3 validation. It just feels like it gives a recipe for quality. I understand that you can’t do something about the spaces in Revslider (I’m gonna go and check with them), but how come some of the divs actually missing a closing tag? Also it complains about <section>’s not having a title tag. I understand having a title on every <section> is weird. Is there any way around this? Are you gonna focus on w3 validation on this product in the future versions?

[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

I’ll pass this feedback back to the team for discussion and we’ll see what we can do to reduce those warnings.

Thanks,
David.

[florianibe]

I hope so, that you fix that issues. Its positive for the theme and all users.

[David Martin – Support]

Sure, I have reported this back to the team so be assured we are aware of it.

Thanks.

[gchagas]

Hello Support

Have you guys got a solution for this W3 problem?? I’m having the same issues as the guys above and because I have bought this theme for a costumer if that such errors appears when the SEO guys start to working on that.

Please advice

Regards

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hey guys,

I’ll take a look into those validation issues. A lot of the time they can be due to unclosed elements in text blocks, but if there is anything caused by the theme itself then we will resolve.

For database size issues, I’d highly recommend this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/

– Ed

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hey guys,

Validation is fixed for the next update, likely released within the next 48 hours.

– Ed