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Hi,
I’ve run a few Page Speed insights and they implicate BoldGrid in a few of of the excess CSS coding that’s slowing down my website.
How do I fix this? Or do I need to uninstall all BoldGrid items to do so?Warm Reards,
DianaAlso I’m moving the site to this URL just in case the other one doesn’t work: responsiblehedonist.co.nz
Hi Diana,
Thanks for reaching out and thanks for using Crio Pro WordPress theme!
I inspected your website in Page Speed Insights and GTmetrix. It looks like your site is structured well and the major recommendations involve setting up a content delivery network (CDN), Image Optimization, and eliminating some problematic JavaScript.
You definitely want to pay attention to the recommendations these services provide. They will typically help you isolate elements of the site that might be taking a while to load. One thing I particularly noticed is you do not have anything in place to handle caching. Your website will load faster once the various resources are cached both on the server and in the users browser. We recommend using W3 Total Cache to handle caching on our BoldGrid sites but there are many different options.
I highly recommend going through this article on optimizing WordPress, it was written by the good folks over at InMotion Hosting and provides some useful information on how to improve website performance. The suggestions include turning on gzip – which should be available in your cPanel account under “Optimize Webite”. Then review the recommendations of Gtmetrix for further optimizations.
I hope this helps. Please reach back out if you have any questions for us.
Hi Brandon,
Thanks for this. When I reached out to DreamHost about this issue, I went through their how to optimize your site guide and it’s running much faster than it did previously.
I have a caching plugin (WP Super Cache), image optimizer (Jet Pack), and reduced my image sizes substantially. I’ll double check the caching program, but last I checked it was working properly.
The excess CSS coding flagged by PageSpeed is almost all BoldGrid and the javascript seems to be as well.
How do I remove these specific items as I did not actually code them myself?
Warm Regards,
DianaYou’re very welcome Diana,
All WordPress themes are built in a way that allows for other plugins and integrations to hook into them and extend the functionality of the theme. Because of this no matter which WordPress thee you run thee will always be some amount of unused CSS and JS. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s harmful to your site but performance tools will detect the unused code.
I’m not too familiar with Wp Super Cache and its features but most caching plugins allow excluding, deferring and asynchronizing CSS and JavScript. It’s also possible to accomplish this with a plugin like Autoptimize.
I would start by searching the WP Super Cache support forums to see how others went about handling this task with the plugin. You can also reach out to the developers directly in support forum.
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