Title: A "responsive" question
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# A "responsive" question

 *  [considerthis1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/considerthis1/)
 * (@considerthis1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/)
 * Hi.
 * [http://www.health-boundaries.com/fingernail-linesridges/](http://www.health-boundaries.com/fingernail-linesridges/)
 * PageSpeed is once again telling me that this page isn’t loading quickly, but 
   this time it says the problem is specifically with mobile devices.
 * I think I may not understand the “responsive” feature… at least not accurately.
 * Does it take more time for a page to respond when it has to make a 386 pixel 
   wide image 320 pixels? than when it has to make a 350 wide image 320?
 * I made my images smaller, rather than optimizing them b/c the detail that makes
   them meaningful is nearly lost with optimizing.
 * But, I thought cell phones were 320 pixels wide. Now I’m learning that some are
   280. Is that right?
 * Do you size your images to reduce loading times?
 * On a desktop my page takes under 3 seconds to load, according to Pingdom. But
   According to PageSpeed which shows mobile device times, it takes over 10 seconds
   on a mobile device.
 * I’m going to crop my pictures and size them smaller in GIMP… but I want to know
   what sizes I should be aiming at. Am I right in thinking that relying too much
   on “responsive” is the wrong approach?????

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506680)
 * Hi, Karen:
 * > Does it take more time for a page to respond when it has to make a 386 pixel
   > wide image 320 pixels? than when it has to make a 350 wide image 320?
 * Not significantly at the sizes you’re referencing. If the user’s computer had
   to resize something that was 2048px across down to 320, that could noticeably
   take more time, but I would think most of the time on the page display would 
   be the transfer of the image to the device, rather than the time it takes for
   the device’s browser to scale the image down. And that time is multiplied by 
   the number of images that you have on the page, so a page with a larger number
   of images to scale is going to take longer to draw than a page with not so many
   images.
 * > I made my images smaller, rather than optimizing them b/c the detail that makes
   > them meaningful is nearly lost with optimizing.
 * Yes, as you’ve discovered, there’s always that balance between optimizing an 
   image for size versus how sharp the image is. An image which has text or distinct
   lines in it, like your header image, will look noticeably more blurry with lower
   resolutions.
 * > But, I thought cell phones were 320 pixels wide. Now I’m learning that some
   > are 280. Is that right?
 * They even go smaller. you can see a list [here](http://cartoonized.net/cellphone-screen-resolution.php).
   You obviously can’t code for every single screen width, so most designers will
   choose 320px since that’s the width of an iPhone, which is the most popular smart
   phone.
 * > Do you size your images to reduce loading times?
 * I will generally reduce my image widths to 1024px, with 90% compression, since
   the main content area on my sites are usually 960px.
 * > I’m going to crop my pictures and size them smaller in GIMP… but I want to 
   > know what sizes I should be aiming at. Am I right in thinking that relying 
   > too much on “responsive” is the wrong approach?????
 * There are probably some things that can be done to improve the load time of images,
   including optimizing for size. I’m not sure if I could recommend spending that
   much effort on it, not knowing how much of a speed improvement you would get 
   in the long run.
 *  Thread Starter [considerthis1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/considerthis1/)
 * (@considerthis1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506683)
 * Hello CrouchingBruin ~~~ 🙂
 * So many questions answered!
 * Happiness, I chose 320 for my images in the sidebar, and as a basic where they
   didn’t “need” to be larger.
 * The remaining problem, though, is that fingernail pictures page takes 7 seconds
   longer to load on mobile devices. So… if it’s not the extra time reducing a 380
   image down to 320 or 280… what is causing mobile devices to load my Fingernail
   Pictures pages more slowly. More than 3 times more slowly. ?????
 * By the way, your help re the TOO LONG Google text ad that was interfering with
   page loads, now that I followed your advice, has made that problem totally disappear.
   Thank you SO MUCH.
 *  Thread Starter [considerthis1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/considerthis1/)
 * (@considerthis1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506697)
 * Hi CrouchingBruin,
    Happy Thanksgiving!
 * I just tested my pages, and although I thought they would properly respond now
   that I removed the Google ad that was too long, when I try to close my browser
   to the size of a small mobile device, it won’t go. It seems now to be set at 
   the larger mobile screen size.
 * Some time ago I could close my browser to see how a page would look on a small
   mobile device.
 * Have you noticed that? In your pages????
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506699)
 * Hi, Karen. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.
 * I think it depends on the browser. I can shrink Chrome to 320px when viewing 
   [your page](http://www.health-boundaries.com/fingernail-linesridges/), and Firefox
   to 93px when viewing the same page.
 * You may want to add this rule to your CSS:
 *     ```
       #breadcrumbs1 {
          padding-left: 0;
          padding-right: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * The default padding for the breadcrumbs makes it stick out a little bit on narrower
   widths.
 *  Thread Starter [considerthis1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/considerthis1/)
 * (@considerthis1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506700)
 * Hi, Thank you!!! (for the Happy Thanksgiving!)
 * And, thank you for this.
 * I have chrome but it won’t shrink to 320. I thought maybe there’d been a change
   to Montezuma.
 * Does the CSS go in Various?
 * After getting rid of the Google ad you identified as too wide, Google is giving
   me full credit for one of the Scorecard categories.
 * I think I’m going to have to make the pictures more narrow on my most visited
   page. I was going to make a mobile page for it, so the other pages could continue
   to have larger images. But apparently I can’t make a mobile page in my site using
   WordPress… Is that true?
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506722)
 * > Does the CSS go in Various?
 * Yes, you can paste the CSS into various.css.
 * > But apparently I can’t make a mobile page in my site using WordPress… Is that
   > true?
 * So you would redirect mobile users to a different page? It can be done, there
   are probably plugins that allow you to do that, or you could write some JavaScript
   to redirect to a different page when a mobile device is detected. No reason why
   it couldn’t be done in WordPress. The whole idea behind a responsive layout, 
   though, is to avoid having to create separate mobile pages/sites, because that
   then doubles the amount of maintenance that you have to do.
 *  Thread Starter [considerthis1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/considerthis1/)
 * (@considerthis1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506745)
 * Hi CrouchingBruin,
    It took me a few days to do it. I had a Scheduling Conference
   thing in Wells Fargo’s foreclosure, that weirded me out. Sigh. I am, once again,
   however, cautiously hopeful. 🙂
 * Okay, so, I added the rule. I haven’t tested each site yet, to see if they go
   small the way they used to.
 * But, today an old problem in this area has again arisen.
 * PageSpeed says: Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold
   content
 * A guy on twitter who professes to Know… a lot if not ALL. says:
    On the server-
   install version of WordPress (.org) you can definitely defer js load time.
 * So I called WPEssential… and the tech said he’d ask “upper tier”. He came back
   and said Yes, I could change the php coding…
 * LOL. I don’t think I could effectively change the coding b/c of the horrible 
   error rate I have when I do things that require absolutely correct details.
 * What do you think? Have you done the “eliminate render-blocking java script” 
   thing on your sites????
 * Karen
 *  Thread Starter [considerthis1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/considerthis1/)
 * (@considerthis1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506746)
 * Just checked… No, my site still is very wide in my browser, which is Chrome.
 * It used to go very narrow, to the size of a small phone if I tried to compress
   it that much…
 * Sigh.
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506747)
 * > What do you think? Have you done the “eliminate render-blocking java script”
   > thing on your sites????
 * No, I generally don’t worry about page load speeds on my sites. The people who
   visit my sites come for specific information that they really can’t get anywhere
   else, so as long as they’re not waiting an inordinate amount of time, I don’t
   worry about how fast their page loads, because I know that they’ll wait. Maybe
   it would be different if I were selling products that they could get on another
   site, i.e., I was competing against other sites for visitors or customers.
 * I don’t seem to have a problem making Chrome narrow when I visit your site.
 *  Thread Starter [considerthis1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/considerthis1/)
 * (@considerthis1)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-responsive-question/#post-5506750)
 * Good Morning CrouchingBruin,
    Sigh. The technical side of websites is very nearly
   overwhelming.
 * Yesterday when the fellow on Twitter showed me a picture from my site, compressed
   by way of blurring background to the main image, I saw that it was identical,
   or nearly so, to the actual images on my most visited page.
 * I worked really hard redoing all those images to have as much definition as possible,
   and I disabled “ShmushIt” so that the full detail of the images would be retained.
 * But, somehow the images were “compressed”.
 * I don’t worry about this because of the income from my Google AdSense ads, but
   because if Google doesn’t like my pages it drops my pages in search results.
 * My pages regarding vitamin B12 are different from the majority. Sigh. For years
   I didn’t use AdSense despite being major poor. Mostly they advertised the kind
   of vitamin B12 that is least costly to produce and least effective.
 * Now I use AdSense and I love having an extra $30 or $50 a month. My social security
   is less than $700, so the income is useful. I hope to grow it.
 * But, my main concern is that my pages be easily found by people who could benefit
   from the information. When people write to me about my pages they usually say
   that they’d looked at a lot of pages and then found mine, and mine were actually
   helpful. They say they began using the information and their health improved.
   That kind of thing.
 * Is the php of my site different from the CSS files you help me with? A different
   man on Twitter said he was able to do everything he needed with WP by adapting
   the php.
 * Thank you for telling me my site narrows when you try it. I’m going to stop worrying
   about that, now. 🙂 Thank YOU.
 * Well, best I get to it…

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