PenNews Theme | How to optimized your site speed?

Dear all our customers,

First, Thank you for loving our themes so far and keep use it for now.

This guide will help you improve your site on google PageSpeed Insights. Please do following steps below:

1/ Optimized images:

For all images display like the posts thumbnail, you can optimize it by use plugin Optimus – WordPress Image Optimizer - this plugin reduces the file size of uploaded media files automatically. Depending on the image and format, reductions in size of up to 70% are possible. 

After installed this plugin, go to Tools > Optimize all images and click button "Optimize all images"

2/ Use W3 Total Cache for Leverage browser caching & create a cache to make your site faster.

W3 Total Cache is a power plugin to make your site load faster, also it can make your site have better scrore on google page speed insights.

Let's install & activate this plugin, after that, go to admin page > Performance > General Settings and make your config look like this image:

3/ Use Autoptimize plugin to Minify Javascript and CSS 

First, Please install plugin Autoptimize

After installed this plugin, go to Settings > Autoptimize and do following the images below:

That's all we're using for our demos. 

Everything else, our themes will handle by Lazyload images & some functions from itseft.

Note Important: 

- If you changed something and you see the front-end doesn't update - you need to clearly all the caches ( clear all the caches from W3 Total Cache & Autoptimize )

- The speed of your site is also based on the hosting you are using - If you're using a bad hosting, of course your site can't load fast with other sites using Soledad theme.