The Grid Plugin Causing Low GTmetrix Score

Posting here because The Grid doesnt have it’s own support and its included wiht X theme.

When I enable the plugin I get an F score on gtmetrix for “Leverage Browser Caching”. How do I fix this?

I also get a low score for “optimize images”. Because the Grid is being used for my Instagram feed I cant compress the images first. Is there an option to do this?

Hey,

You can learn some optimise tricks here: https://www.themepunch.com/faq/frontend-grid-loading-optimization-options/

The link you posted is for Essential GRID, I am referring to “The Grid” plugin. Both are included with X theme but are different.

Hello @sactown024,

Extremely sorry for the confusion.

Basically Leverage Browser Caching will store web page files into browser cache resulting better page load time when user reloads the page or decides to navigate deeper into website. You can refer this handy guide that will help you to setup browser caching.

Please note that it will require you to add few line of code in .htaccess file found under root directory of server.

Another option is to install plugin like W3 Total Cache. Though it can take couple of extra minutes to setup W3 total cache, but it’s worth investing the time to improve overall page load time. Please refer following tutorial to setup W3 Total cache.

https://www.howlthemes.com/wordpress-caching-w3-total-cache-setup-guide/

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks.