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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Still having load time issuesYes and no. Hostgator turned on mod_deflate this morning for my VPS though it still says “gzip not detected” when I do the compatibility check in W3. I will do more testing about that later.
I still need help with the settings regarding what templates to choose for the CSS and JS detected. Does W3 automatically give the right one to choose? (See my third last post or 5th from top) Thank you!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Still having load time issuesSo efkim says to embed them before </head> whereas c3mdigital says before </body>. What is really better?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Still having load time issuesAs I’m still familiarizing myself with the new version Im trying to figure out what the best minify settings from the help button are. It detects 7 javascripts and 5 CSS on my site.
On the js, it sets some of them as “all templates” and some of them as “single”. One (addthis widget) as “index”. Is that ok? And should I embed all of these before </body>, as non-blocking? And if I do that do I also still need to enable “Combine only before </body>” in the general minify JS settings?
As for the CSS, they are all detected for “all templates”. Im not sure if I should minify my WordBay CSS because as you may know that plugin pulls and displays current Ebay listings. Could minification cause any problems here?
Sorry, but I feel like this is all a bit over my head…but I would really like to learn and understand. Thank you for your help and time!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Still having load time issuesOk, an update. I just opened a ticket with hostgator and they denied that Im on a shared server, like I said. Im on a VPS.
However, they did confirm that gzip is turned off (and gzip test tool states so too) but they offered me to recompile the Apache webserver for my VPS to enable it. From what I understand the benefits of using gzip are quite dramatic so I guess I should let them do that, huh? He said though it would take a couple of hours to recompile so it would need to be done during low traffic hours.
They also confirmed that I should turn off database caching as a VPS Level 3 does not have enough RAM memory to really make effective use of that. Im wondering though if that memory couldn’t be increased? What would be a necessary size?
Btw, I was till on version 0.8.5.2 so I upgraded to the latest and thus was able to enable these recommendations and some more enhancements (after reading the FAQ). I still have a few questions after ploughing though that FAQ but will post these later.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Still having load time issuesThanks so much for the support guys! I’m not sure if I fully understand where exactly I should put these recommendations into action so please allow me to paste in my W3 settings I currently have. Please tell me where I should change something, especially regarding the time/interval settings.
General settings:
Everything enabled except CDN. Page caching is enhanced disk. Minify is disk. DB caching is disk.
*** I’m only able to use disk because the other options (Dedicated/Virtual Server, Multiple server) don’t seem to be available to me. However, I am on a level 3 VPS plan with hostgator.Page cache settings:
Enabled: Don’t cache pages for logged in users
Enabled: Cache the home page
Enabled: Cache RSS / Atom feeds (site, categories, tags, comments).
HTTP compression: Gzip and deflate.
Maximum lifetime of cache objects: 6600 sec.
Garbage collection interval: 6600 sec.
Rest is default.Minify Settings:
Enabled: Rewrite URL structure.
Enabled: Automatically upload modified files.
HTTP compression: Gzip and deflate.
HTML minify settings: Enabled + Don’t minify HTML for logged in administrators
JS minify settings: Enabled
JS file management: Default
CSS minify settings: Enabled
CSS file management: Default
Maximum lifetime of cache objects: 86400 sec
Update external files every: 86400 sec
Garbage collection interval: 86400 secDatabase Caching Settings:
Enabled: Don’t cache queries for logged in users
Maximum lifetime of cache objects: 180 sec
Garbage collection interval: 3600
Ignored query stems: gdsr_Again, I’m on a VPS level 3 with hostgator so I’m a bit mystified why c3mdigital says I’m on a shared server? How can you tell? Are their VPS plans actually on shared servers? (Well, I guess thats the whole point of VPS, huh…) So does that mean some settings just dont go into effect even though I have them enabled? (db disk caching, deflate)
Also, I notice when Im logged in as an admin and browse around my site or actually edit things in WordPress the site often loads pretty slow. Sometimes forever, like its “hanging”. I had this even before I had any W3 installed. Is there anything I can do about that? I know I had contacted hostgator about that a few times and they changed some settings for me (increase of process limit and server memory) but it didnt seem to do much. Maybe I should contact them again about the deflate option.
Once again thanks, I really appreciate it!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Still having load time issuesOoops, youre right. The page that Im using as an example is:
http://www.usbmemorysticks.net/lacie-key-flash-drivesHere’s the result from the link you gave me:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100821_3BK6/Looks like this tells me as well that minify and gzip isnt working very well. How can that be when I have most of the “best” options set in the minify and cashing tab of W3? Also, what is this “Cache static”?
Thanks a lot!Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with nofollow free pluginHi sam,
thanks for the alternatives but for now I would like to stick with this plugin. Any have a clue where in the php files I can find and remove that text/url? I couldnt find it yet!Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Google cache not showing my images now?Well, I do have htaccess files in each gallery folder redirecting google image search from the images to the corresponding page. I guess that explains. Hmm, I have had this set up for a long time though, could have sworn that previously the images showed up in the cached pages.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Google cache not showing my images now?Ok, I just submitted a bug report. If you need anything else, let me know.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Images not showing upNo worries, frederick. I replaced these incomplete url image paths with the complete ones and now its all fine. However, I do have a new problem. See my post on “Google cache not showing my images”.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Images not showing upActually, it doesnt go away…what the? Crap! Some subsequent pages show the image icons fine but some arent, usually my newer ones. Argh…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Images not showing upYes. My best guess is that w3 has trouble with properly reading or caching the image paths on such url page structures…could this be fixed in the php?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Images not showing upNo, this is not CDN, everything is on my own website/server. The image urls I’ve given you are all missing the main domain in the html code. For some reason that is the way wordpress set them up. Again, the image url in the html would be something like “../wp-content/gallery/xx.jpg”. These are the ones that dont show up anymore with w3-cache, but only on subsequent category pages. So apparently w3-cache has a problem caching or displaying these, at least on a page structure like “domain.com/category/xx/page/2”. Any idea why? I would like to avoid having to redo all these image paths.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Robots Meta] Possible to noindex specific urls?Since I didnt get a response to this I resorted to using the URL removal tool in google webmaster tools. You can submit any indexed url you like to get removed and google does so very quickly. The only thing that needs to be taken care of is that the urls to be removed are also blocked in robots.txt and arent shown in the sitemap.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problems with pasting in WYSIWYGOk, at least part of the problem has resolved itself. The problem was that after I had switched from a shared server to a VPS server the initial server memory was set too low. This also had given me trouble with some plugins like Cystats and NextGen Gallery. After I had the memory limit set to 64MB (which is standard for a shared server actually) everything worked fine again. I can see all posts again in visual mode and edit them. 🙂 Unfortunately, the pasting problem is still there. I guess I could try to do a clean reinstall of WP, but I would really like to avoid that. Does anyone know if this could actually alleviate this formatting annoyance?