[Nick PParticipant]

Hey @adam G,

Just curious – any update on your testing with W3 Total Cache? Thoughts?

[Pieter tParticipant]

Hey guys, im currently testing on http://iphone-kopen.mobi/ with the theme. Loading speeds are incredibly slow. Got any clues on how to fix whatever is causing this abnormal slowness?

Also firebug shows that the site is loading in twice, any known fixes for this?

Tnx in advance

[AlexanderKeymaster]

Hi Pieter,

It’s taking 1-2 seconds for your server to provide the initial response. This is where most of your speed loss is happening. This is common if you’re on a shared hosting environment. I’d recommend using a caching plugin like WP Super cache. This will cache pre-generated HTML and serve that to the users instead of running all the PHP each time someone comes to your site.

[Adam GParticipant]

@nick p

Hi Nick,

The best way to use W3 Total Cache is with Cloudflare, we disable the minification process in Total cache and switch on minification in cloudflare.

Speed increase of 33% on average compared to using just Total cache.

Regards
Adam

[Michael CParticipant]

This post is great!
Thank you O-Be-Wan,
You are my only hope.

[ChristianModerator]

Glad this thread helped you Michael.

[Matt MParticipant]

@adam G

Would you still use Autoptimize with W3TC and Cloudflare? If so, how should I be doing the minification?

[Rich AParticipant]

Great question Matt. On one of my sites I’m using W3TC and Cloudflare with Cloudflare doing the primary minification. Since X-Theme v2.x has built in minification I’d also like some guidance with respect to how we should adjust our settings.

TIA!

[bluecafeParticipant]

If you have the jetpack plugin installed you might also want to have a look at the jetpack module “photon”. Once activated all images of your site are hosted in the wordpress.com cdn network and will be delivered from there in all necessary sizes.

[Rich AParticipant]

Hi Esther…not sure who the response was for, but I stopped using Jetpack long ago. 🙂

[Adam GParticipant]

@matt M,

Hello there, as regards to the minification that has been done in the new version of X (2.0), which i would say has been touched on rather than extensive minification overhaul, but never the less great work from Theme.co team.

It is still recommended to use minification on cloudflare as these add an extra layer of minify to serving files from CDN servers at cloudflare. Obviously using W3 Total cache with cloudflare you dont need to use W3T built in minify.

Optimistation of images and the amount of plugins used will also have an impact on site performance, i hope this answers your questions.

Regards
Adam G

[ChristianModerator]

Thanks for sharing Adam.

[Rich AParticipant]

Thanks very much Adam. So basically it sounds as if we shouldn’t make any changes regarding minification (Cloudflare minification ON, W3TC minification OFF and X-Theme’s minification DEFAULT). Correct me if I’m wrong though. 😉

Thanks again!

[RadModerator]

Yes Rich, you will only need one minification other than X default.

[Rich AParticipant]

Much appreciated. 🙂

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