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Hello,
I use a ready-made theme on Drile, which recommends using W3TC. I have used many plugins for performance – paid and free. For example, WP Rocket – Paid version, even an IT specialist wasn’t able to configure the settings correctly and run the site. Now I want some balance with W3TC and the website http://www.rosco.bg is little fast, but the test results are very low, especially the mobile version. A lot of JS content and mostly CSS. I am not IT specialist and I need help to set correct settings of W3TC for our theme. I’m ready to pay for the paid version, but to get a fast site with good results, we also have a free theme. Maybe you can look at it and give me recommendetions what is correct in this case.
Thank you!Hello Rosen,
Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to assist you with this.
The optimal W3 Total Cache configuration takes into account a number of factors: your theme, your plugins, and the technologies available on the server. Since everyone’s site, traffic and theme are different, there is no one-size-fits-all solution.This service also takes into account the idiosyncrasies of Web Performance Optimization (WPO) in a WordPress context. What this means is that WPO best practices have to be modified for WordPress because of how the application operates. The number of counter-intuitive realities could fill a small book.
In your case, the most problematic things are the unused scripts that are loading on your website. Unfortunately, since those are all external scripts, meaning 3rd party scripts loading from another server on your website, those files cannot be optimized.
The second thing is render-blocking resources. I’ve noticed that you’re using Cloudflare so, please check if Minify is enabled there. If so, disable it and use W3 Total Cache Minify, to minify JS and CSS files.
The Pro version of the plugin offers additional features, that can be used to improve the performance and resolve the Google page speed issues.
I would however recommend a full website Performance Audit as a Premium support solution.Thanks!
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