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Hello, I am not a developer. I tried installing W3 total cache using your module – my GT score is F7%. Will appreciate if you could take a look and suggest improvements.
Tulsi, IndiaHi Tulsi!
I ran a GTMetrix test against the domain included in your message and it looks like the vast majority of the assets loaded on your website are images. One performance improvement you could make is optimizing the image sizes used on your pages to see if that helps improve the overall score. Image optimization is not something currently included in W3 Total Cache, but it is definitely that we would like to get added someday. In the meantime you might want to see if a plugin like EWWW Image Optimizer can help you get your images configured more efficiently.
Hopefully optimizing your images helps improve your load times and please let us know how it goes!
Dear Joseph, thanks a lot for your response, and appreciate the time and expertise shared.
I already did Smush plugin – but I am open to shifting to EWWW Image Optimizer. Grateful if you could let me know your suggestion,
TulsiHi Tulsi! I personally have not used Smush before and prefer EWWW whenever I need to work on image optimizations. However, if you already attempted to optimize your images with Smush, the problem could be coming from some other area of the configuration and running EWWW might not be the fix you are looking for. Have you already tried image optimizations on your website?
Dear Joseph,
I do not understand what you mean by image optimization on website – I usually save as web 60% and add the image to the site. Recently I did smush all the images. Google Site Kit gives the following feedback for mobile view (it is slightly better for desktop view). I am sorry for taking up your time – very grateful for any information or direction. I am lost actually. Regards, Tulsi
Total Blocking Time (How long people had to wait after the page loaded before they could click something) 2,710 ms POOR
Largest Contentful Paint (Time it takes for the page to load) 17.2 s POOR
Cumulative Layout Shift (How stable the elements on the page are) 0.109 NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
Recommendations on how to improve your site:
Eliminate render-blocking resources
Remove unused CSS
Avoid enormous network payloads
Reduce initial server response time
Serve images in next-gen formats
Remove unused JavaScript
Efficiently encode images
Minify JavaScript
Serve static assets with an efficient cache policyHi Tulsi, sorry about the confusion!
Smush and EWWW both help to optimize the images on your website, and if you already ran Smush then there probably isn’t much else to do regarding image optimization.
Have you by chance made any of the configurations outlined in our guide on configuring W3 Total Cache and Avada yet? If not then I recommend starting with some of those suggestions to see if that helps improve the performance of your website.
Thank you Joseph, Yes, I had done it already – but in the user experience, there were a few codes already and I had added skip-lazy background. So, I deleted the rest and added only this – but none of my images were showing afterward. I deleted Total Cache and reinstalled it, but the earlier code was gone and the problem persists. I want to do WP Total Cache again (and even go for a pro at a later stage), but without images showing, I don’t know how to proceed now.
I seem to have no improvement whatsoever, even after disabling most of the plugins and testing the rest. I have block rendering issues with one of the plugins which is delaying the first paint. I read somewhere that I can manually defer those blocks alone… Now,
1. How to add WP Total Cache all over again – my images don’t show anymore
2. Is there a way to manually add the blocking resources to be minified
3. I plan to add EWWW image optimizer – have removed Smush
I understand that I am taking a lot of your time – I will appreciate if this could be resolved,
Thank you,
Happy New Year !!
TulsiHappy New Year Tulsi!
If you need to start from scratch with W3 Total Cache you can follow these steps to completely remove an remnant W3TC data and begin a fresh installation:
- Purge Cache
- Deactivate and Delete Plugin in the dashboard
- Check .htaccess file and remove W3TC configurations (make a backup of the file before deleting)
W3TC will create many directives in .htaccess file to control the caching behavior. Each section will start and end with comments like “#BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core” and “#END W3TC Page Cache core”. Ensure that no residual entries are left over in your .htaccess file after deleting the plugin. - Delete the following files and folders from your /wp-content directory: cache folder, w3tc-config folder, object-cache.php (if it exists), advanced-cache.php (if it exists), upgrade folder, w3-total-cache folder (if it exists)
- Delete cached files from your CDN if you are using one. Besides deleting all the relevant files, if you use CDN then ensure to purge the cached content from your CDN. This is necessary when you enabled minify option in W3TC settings. You should delete the minified and combined scripts and CSS files from your CDN server to avoid the site breaking on the browser.
- Go to your WordPress dashboard and reinstall W3 Total Cache
You can turn on Manual Minify mode by navigating in your WordPress dashboard to Performance > General and then going to the Minify section. You should see a toggle there that allows you to switch your Minify mode between Auto and Manual.
Once Manual mode is activated you can go to Performance > Minify to start manually adding the files that need to be minified. The JS and CSS sections will each have a File Management tool that allows you to select which files are added to the Minify list. You can also change the Embed Type in the JS section from Default (blocking) to any of the other non-blocking modes if needed.
Please let us know if you have any other questions for us Tulsi!
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