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dkb1980

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Hi guys,

hope my topic fits well into this White HAT SEO.

I was always looking for a blazing fast theme for my news site. I lost around 80% of my traffic in May Algo update and struggling a bit with my site. I changed 3 themes in the last few days. For now, I use Herald which is from my point of view quite nice and fast (I used the longest time newspaper theme, then I tried zeen, and Soledad) My challenge was always to get both mobile and desktop in google pagespeed over 90s. I tried WP Rocket, added Autooptimize... no way. Especially after adding some google AdSense the site speed was going down dramatically. Then I found this little plugin online: https://wordpress.org/plugins/core-web-vitals-optimization/#reviews

With one click I was 93/98 OMG what happened... lol I cannot explain. My problem is - it says its not fixing everything but applying some basic stuff. So what did they do? No clue, but my site works and is fast. WTF... my problem is, it says: Valid till: 2020-09-11 Means it will stay improved only until Sep 11th. I could find their service on the website, they ask 250 EUR per year :/

Any similar tools / plugins? And ideas how to improve the google core vitals etc?

Any thoughts on this?
 
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Hey I am facing the same issue. Any thoughts on using generatepress theme?
 
spawnn said:
Hey I am facing the same issue. Any thoughts on using generatepress theme?
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I purchased a licence for 1 year, but I didnt like the design in the end :/. Sure, for just blogging it might be a good fit, but definitely not for news sites etc...
 
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dkb1980 said:
I purchased a licence for 1 year, but I didnt like the design in the end :/. Sure, for just blogging it might be a good fit, but definitely not for news sites etc...
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Agree brother.
What config are you using as of now?
Which cache plugin,
which theme?
Any additional things would you recommend to make the webmaster issues less
 
spawnn said:
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Agree brother.
What config are you using as of now?
Which cache plugin,
which theme?
Any additional things would you recommend to make the webmaster issues less
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As a Theme I use now the Herald Theme with a News/Magazine Demo theme. As Plugins for optimization I use autooptimizer, WP Rocket and this plugin which I posted above - it fixed everything magically. But it will work until Sep 11th and seriously I dont wanna pay 250 bucks per year for a prem :/ So not sure what to do next for now.

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the desktop version is even 98%
 
spawnn said:
Amazing insights brother. Can you share herald theme?
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Herald Theme is a premium theme, but you can download it nulled online. Not sure whether I can share it here whithout getting banned :/
 
First of all, unless your site loads above 5 seconds, don't focus too much on speed, it doesn't really help that much with SEO like on-site optimization and backlinks do. Focus on them first, if you nail them, you can still rank with a slow website. Now, if most of your users leave, that's another problem. But I have found generally 2-3 seconds is average, meaning you can still rank and not lose a lot of your users. Less than 1 second is perfect.

Second, to achieve 1 sec results, a plugin is not all that is needed. Make sure you also do all of the following, they are all free:

1) Fast server - if you have the knowledge, set up an AWS instance by using their 1-year free trial, this is enough for 90% of informational sites until they reach scale (in which case you can afford to pay more). A cheap $5-10 VPS would also work. Both of these options are technical. If that is not for you, get a good fully-managed WP host, like SiteGround. I set up everything myself on AWS because I know how to, but when I am busy or doing it for clients, I go with SiteGround, they are pretty good in terms of server speed & resources.

2) Get a Cloudflare account (free) and set it up. You literally have hundreds of tutorials online on how to do that, so I won't go into specifics here.

3) Optimize images - this brings most of the impact on page speed. Use Squoosh (free) to reduce image sizes from MB-s to mere KB-s. Lazy load these new images on your site using any free plugin on the WP store.

4) Minify HTML / CSS / JS - plenty of free online tools to do that, plus I think most caching plugins do that too now by default (I stopped using them a long time ago).

5) Get AMP since you have a news site - I personally hate AMP because of several reasons, one being your content gets routed through Google's servers, but for page speed it does help a lot, since Google takes care of most of the loading. Every big news site uses AMP nowadays and they all load blazing fast, at least on mobile.

6) This isn't necessary, but since people insist on using caching plugins, use one, BUT set it up correctly (again, plenty of free tutorials to help you). Most of the times, when your site doesn't load that fast and you already fixed everything else, it's because of the caching plugin not being set up properly. I know, it's ironic, a plugin that it's supposed to speed up your site but it actually slows it down.

Also, if you use SiteGround, you don't need a caching plugin, as they already use their own proprietary one, which works well. In fact, most WP fully-managed hosts do this, at least the good ones.

That's basically it. I can 100% guarantee you if you do all of the above correctly, you will get 1-2 sec speeds. It's manual work, but it's free. If you don't want to do manual work, then just pay $20/month (240/12) for that premium plugin, it's worth your time.
 
silvi-kucedra said:
First of all, unless your site loads above 5 seconds, don't focus too much on speed, it doesn't really help that much with SEO like on-site optimization and backlinks do. Focus on them first, if you nail them, you can still rank with a slow website. Now, if most of your users leave, that's another problem. But I have found generally 2-3 seconds is average, meaning you can still rank and not lose a lot of your users. Less than 1 second is perfect.

Second, to achieve 1 sec results, a plugin is not all that is needed. Make sure you also do all of the following, they are all free:

1) Fast server - if you have the knowledge, set up an AWS instance by using their 1-year free trial, this is enough for 90% of informational sites until they reach scale (in which case you can afford to pay more). A cheap $5-10 VPS would also work. Both of these options are technical. If that is not for you, get a good fully-managed WP host, like SiteGround. I set up everything myself on AWS because I know how to, but when I am busy or doing it for clients, I go with SiteGround, they are pretty good in terms of server speed & resources.

2) Get a Cloudflare account (free) and set it up. You literally have hundreds of tutorials online on how to do that, so I won't go into specifics here.

3) Optimize images - this brings most of the impact on page speed. Use Squoosh (free) to reduce image sizes from MB-s to mere KB-s. Lazy load these new images on your site using any free plugin on the WP store.

4) Minify HTML / CSS / JS - plenty of free online tools to do that, plus I think most caching plugins do that too now by default (I stopped using them a long time ago).

5) Get AMP since you have a news site - I personally hate AMP because of several reasons, one being your content gets routed through Google's servers, but for page speed it does help a lot, since Google takes care of most of the loading. Every big news site uses AMP nowadays and they all load blazing fast, at least on mobile.

6) This isn't necessary, but since people insist on using caching plugins, use one, BUT set it up correctly (again, plenty of free tutorials to help you). Most of the times, when your site doesn't load that fast and you already fixed everything else, it's because of the caching plugin not being set up properly. I know, it's ironic, a plugin that it's supposed to speed up your site but it actually slows it down.

Also, if you use SiteGround, you don't need a caching plugin, as they already use their own proprietary one, which works well. In fact, most WP fully-managed hosts do this, at least the good ones.

That's basically it. I can 100% guarantee you if you do all of the above correctly, you will get 1-2 sec speeds. It's manual work, but it's free. If you don't want to do manual work, then just pay $20/month (240/12) for that premium plugin, it's worth your time.
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Thanks for your work, but I do already all of it :) but because of the stupid google ads, google fonts etc the metrics and especially LCP drops most of the time. Additionally, the site metrics will become very important from Jan 1st, 2021 as it will be a part of the google metrics to rank - especially all these LCP, FID etc :/ thats why I am doing it. Otherwise, I believe my speed is just fine.
 
dkb1980 said:
Thanks for your work, but I do already all of it :) but because of the stupid google ads, google fonts etc the metrics and especially LCP drops most of the time. Additionally, the site metrics will become very important from Jan 1st, 2021 as it will be a part of the google metrics to rank - especially all these LCP, FID etc :/ thats why I am doing it. Otherwise, I believe my speed is just fine.
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Yeah, stop believing all the bullshit being spit out from Google. Those metrics will join the list of the other 200+ signals used for ranking, but none of them will have any meaningful weight in the algorithm. What I mean is, if those metrics are low, your site will still rank fine IF AND ONLY IF it's relevant (on-site optimization) and popular (backlinks). If you believe your speed is fine (less than 1-2 seconds), don't spend any more effort on those metrics, they are just a waste of time. Instead fix your content and build backlinks.
 
you can hire a developer form fiverr or upwork to optimize your site speed. it will cost you around. 5 - 20 $
 
improving server speed and ,
optimizing website images,
stabilizing page loading,
updating contents,
look into critical css.
 
dkb1980 said:
Herald Theme is a premium theme, but you can download it nulled online. Not sure whether I can share it here whithout getting banned :/
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you can share it in giveaway section. just include virus check.
 
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