Kaptinlin Themes Support

www.cushah.com, We achieved 99, and currently it fluctuates between 98 and 99 at certain intervals. Will soon post up the check-list that boosted up the score.

I will go and have a look and thanks again for designing such a good theme.

I am currently at 93 with a long list of plugins. Not too bad considering I am using SuperCashe and not W3.

you might try not caching your database and tuning up the mySQL db in my.cnf . If you have ssh root access. There are a number of simple scripts that you can run that will help you with the process.

I've found that dropping the db cache in either W3 or super Cache and tuning manually has a lot better performance and am getting a 97% cache hit rate on sql reads etc... Just remember to backup the my.cnf file and make only one change at a time...

If you are interested I can point you to the direction.

Also if you are comfortable in modifying some of Lin's code there are a number of javascripts and techniques that allow for parallel loading of external scripts and each one has its down sides of course

A great starting point is the site http://www.html5boilerplate.com/ they have lots of configs for .htaccess etc and some of what they consider the best practices are.

One caveat is that you need to tread carefully when making these changes as Lin has implemented some specific scripts to deal with issues.

Quick Tips:
Lin uses the php filemtime() as a caching mechanism for his css and script files. Filemtime() is supposed to be cachable so that the function isn't called on every page load during the session. I have always wondered if this really is true. It might be simpler (but a little more work) is to just comment out that function call and replace it with style.css?v=2 everytime you make a change to the css or javascript.

Another tip is to go through his code and replace any dynamic Wordpress function calls for your site URL etc with a hard-coded version http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/striking/ .... (he does load a lot of this info in to arrays at the beginning so this might or might not have a big affect)

There is one trick that may help you and that is to make custom pages for your home page and key landing pages and then either using the function.php file or custom header.php strip out as much of the code and calls as you can get away with.

Make these key pages super lean and clean - (You would be surprised how fast Wordpress is without loading tons of scripts)

I would highly recommend this free eBook http://wpajax.com/download/ . It is technical, but you will find that Lin has implemented many of the techniques described and then with a little bit of knowledge and skills with wordpress hooks, filters and enqeue and deqeues you can safely without hacking make some key landing pages load very fast

The bottom line tuning a site can take a long time, we once spent over 8 months trying to get everything right and it took the effort of some really good programers (python helped too)

When you are at 92% score, becoming perfect is not worth the effort and your time might be spent more wisely creating content, forming relationships with other sites - or simply throwing more server resources at the site. It is amazing what 4GB of memory and mySQL on its own server can accomplish ;-0)

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Burt Gordon

Great advice above, will check out all the suggestions.

Currently at 98, so that should really be fast enough for Google.

Time to get writing and creating more content!

I got 95/100 -Desktop and 92/100 - mobile. I used google page speed. https://developers.google.com/pagespeed without using w3total Cache and AMAZON Cloudfront. Note: DNS is host hosted by Amazon Route 53.
I think the most important optimization that I have done was running striking image folder through yahoo smush-it and updating all my images that way with the plugin
smush-it. Then I minified screen.css file and other css files for my special shortcodes. Was tempted to minify the skin.css.
Interesting to note: When I turned on W3total cache and Amazon Cloudfront, my page load time goes down, and my page speed goes down to 91/100 -Desktop and 87/100-mobile.

That was it.

proch said:

I got 95/100 -Desktop and 92/100 - mobile. I used google page speed. https://developers.google.com/pagespeed without using w3total Cache and AMAZON Cloudfront. Note: DNS is host hosted by Amazon Route 53.
I think the most important optimization that I have done was running striking image folder through yahoo smush-it and updating all my images that way with the plugin
smush-it. Then I minified screen.css file and other css files for my special shortcodes. Was tempted to minify the skin.css.
Interesting to note: When I turned on W3total cache and Amazon Cloudfront, my page load time goes down, and my page speed goes down to 91/100 -Desktop and 87/100-mobile.

That was it.

I've got 91. Could you share the list of plugins you used, please? I am also curious how you handled the problem of browser caching of theme images.

I second the two requests above me for more information to optimize the load times.

My google page speed score is a 61 out of 100.

If I understood correctly I should skip W3 and super Cache and make more "complicated" edits on my theme? I would love more details, I'm thinking that one of these two plugins is better than none?

As a designer, i have no clue on how to increase my site performance. :\">

I have tried a lot of things, but none seems to work. I am currently using WP Super Cache and Hostgator support made a few changes to some of the .htaccess files (not sure if its normal, but i have almost 1 per folder) in order to Leverage the browser cache; but my score keeps steady at 86/100.

Is anyone here available to set my website to at least 96? (of course, i will pay for the work).

@paulieb81.

i used to have my site on hostgator. but it all depends on your country of origin. I did not get any good results on hostgator in my countrty whatever i tried. Whereas if my goal target market would be the usa i would indeed use hostgator as a hosting partner.

Best regards,
BackuPs

I have 96/97 page speed on all my sites using Striking
Use Memo cahce, W3 and Maxcdn
Using CDN enabled brings you from 80's to 95 and above. I had one site sitting at 99

JoeBlack said:

See www.boracaylive.com as one of my examples - its at 96

Hi JoeBlack,

Watch out, your site's slider is not working.

Regards,
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Diego

If you have some heavy photos on your site and you want to speed it up a bit you may want to try the JPEGmini service (http://www.jpegmini.com) It will help you to reduce the size of your photos while keeping their quality. I have tested it on a few photos previously optimized with Smush.it and the size reduction was sometimes surprisingly effective.

We're using W3 Total Cache and CloudFlare and our score is 97 - http://source-pro.org

According the chrome app page speed insights I have a score of

PageSpeed Score of 92 (out of 100).

I have cloudflare, w3 total cache, and I also have in the settings of striking to load my javascript at the bottom of the page. I actually created a CDN with Amazon, but it seemed to slow down my sight considerably rather than speed it up. So I disabled the feature in w3tc until I know how to set it up properly.

The problem was the files that were passed thru amazon cloud front werent optimezed themselves.

I'd like it to be faster, but I guess I'm done spending time improving it for now. currently I am on a shared host and would like to move to a cloud host or something similar one day.

I am also gzipping via the php.ini file in my host.

This tutorial helped me alot
http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-ultimate-quickstart-guide-to-speeding-up-your-wordpress-site/

mine is still same as before 92/100.. overall PageSpeed Score of 92 (out of 100)

http://www.pickywebdesign.com

regards,
Dubai Web Design

Mine or Picky Web Design? Can't wait to download the new version of striking.