HOW TO OPTIMIZE NEWSPAPER FOR PAGESPEED INSIGHTS
Among the numerous themes that we can find for our website created with WordPress, we can find Newspaper from tagDiv. A premium theme with endless configuration and optimization possibilities.
It is the theme that I use personally in all my web pages and also, the one that I always recommend for its excellent features. But by default it is not optimized, so with this simple but complete guide you will learn to leave it completely optimized.
Why optimize Newspaper?
It is no secret that Google increasingly takes into account the speed of loading a website, especially on mobile devices. The loading speed directly affects the user experience , and with it, the SEO of our website.
If from your mobile you are trying to see a page and it takes a long time to load, do you wait or search for another web page that offers you the same information faster? That's right, speed is a key factor today.
What do I need to optimize Newspaper?
You need a legal copy of the theme (original), in order to have all the updates and add-ons (plugins of the theme itself).
In addition, you need to have a quality hosting that is optimized. Hosting (web hosting) directly affects the loading metrics of our page. A poor quality or poorly configured hosting is like a 50 kilos bag on our back .
And from here, you will only need to dedicate the next ten or fifteen minutes of your life to read and apply the changes that I will recommend on your own website.
In order for you to see the benefits that optimization will make on your website, you must first know how your page works right now.
To do this, you can use these free test tools:
My advice is that you do a test on all and save a screenshot, or write down the results (Especially with PageSpeed which is the most reliable ). Now, before doing any optimization.
Do the tests with an article on your website and with the home, so you can appreciate the results. They are not very good, right? Quiet, that will change.
If you want your website mounted with WordPress and Newspaper to be optimized in Google PageSpeed Insights, you just have to follow the simple tips that I show you below.
This is not the first guide to optimize this fantastic template called Newspaper, but it is the first to show an optimization to improve our score in the new PageSpeed, which includes Lighthouse.
So the first thing you should do is follow all the suggestions that the tagDig team gives us in its complete tutorial:
PageSpeed guide by tagDiv
When you have completed all the tips indicated in the guide, then you can continue here, applying my new tips. I insist, it is absolutely necessary to previously follow the guide of tagDiv.
Make a complete backup of your website
This configuration that we are going to use is 100% safe, but there is always a possibility that something does not go well. Therefore, I recommend you make a complete backup of your website.
Thus, if something fails, you can recover your website in a few minutes by restoring the backup. But I insist, this configuration is 100% secure (I use it on all my websites).
Use an appropriate theme version
Each version of the theme has its own advantages (or disadvantages). I use version 10.2 of Newspaper because it works great. But version 10.3 is currently available, which I will install in the next few days as it has just been released and I always like to wait at least 15 days in case it contains failures.
Install and configure a JS optimization plugin
We will use a free plugin that will help us greatly improve the optimization of our website mounted with Newspaper. This is the “ Fast Velocity Minify ” plugin which can be found in the WordPress plugin repository.
Let's go to the plugins tab
We click on " Add new "
We write the name of the “ Fast Velocity Minify ” plugin
We click on “ Install ” and then on “ Activate ”
Well, now that we have the plugin installed on our website, we must make some configuration changes . They are very simple changes, so let's go with it.
We go to the “ Settings ” tab of our WordPress administration panel and then click on “ Fast Velocity Minify ”. A new window will open where we must click on " Settings ".
In the " Functionality " option we must check all the boxes.
In the option " URL Options " we must check " Force HTTPS URLs "
In the “ HTML Options ” options, check the last box “Cleanup Header”
In " Font Options " we should not mark anything, everything should be empty.
In the “ Google Fonts ” option we leave the first option “ Inline Google Fonts CSS ” marked
In the option “ Font Awesome ” we leave the “ Merge or Inline Font Awesome CSS ” box checked
In the " CSS Options " option, check the box " Preserve the order of CSS files ", " Disable the Print related stylesheets " and " Inline CSS in the footer ".
In the “ JavaScript Options ” option we do not mark anything and we move on to the next opt
It is the theme that I use personally in all my web pages and also, the one that I always recommend for its excellent features. But by default it is not optimized, so with this simple but complete guide you will learn to leave it completely optimized.
Why optimize Newspaper?
It is no secret that Google increasingly takes into account the speed of loading a website, especially on mobile devices. The loading speed directly affects the user experience , and with it, the SEO of our website.
If from your mobile you are trying to see a page and it takes a long time to load, do you wait or search for another web page that offers you the same information faster? That's right, speed is a key factor today.
What do I need to optimize Newspaper?
You need a legal copy of the theme (original), in order to have all the updates and add-ons (plugins of the theme itself).
In addition, you need to have a quality hosting that is optimized. Hosting (web hosting) directly affects the loading metrics of our page. A poor quality or poorly configured hosting is like a 50 kilos bag on our back .
And from here, you will only need to dedicate the next ten or fifteen minutes of your life to read and apply the changes that I will recommend on your own website.
In order for you to see the benefits that optimization will make on your website, you must first know how your page works right now.
To do this, you can use these free test tools:
My advice is that you do a test on all and save a screenshot, or write down the results (Especially with PageSpeed which is the most reliable ). Now, before doing any optimization.
Do the tests with an article on your website and with the home, so you can appreciate the results. They are not very good, right? Quiet, that will change.
If you want your website mounted with WordPress and Newspaper to be optimized in Google PageSpeed Insights, you just have to follow the simple tips that I show you below.
Newspaper optimization step by step
This is not the first guide to optimize this fantastic template called Newspaper, but it is the first to show an optimization to improve our score in the new PageSpeed, which includes Lighthouse.
So the first thing you should do is follow all the suggestions that the tagDig team gives us in its complete tutorial:
PageSpeed guide by tagDiv
When you have completed all the tips indicated in the guide, then you can continue here, applying my new tips. I insist, it is absolutely necessary to previously follow the guide of tagDiv.
Make a complete backup of your website
This configuration that we are going to use is 100% safe, but there is always a possibility that something does not go well. Therefore, I recommend you make a complete backup of your website.
Thus, if something fails, you can recover your website in a few minutes by restoring the backup. But I insist, this configuration is 100% secure (I use it on all my websites).
Use an appropriate theme version
Each version of the theme has its own advantages (or disadvantages). I use version 10.2 of Newspaper because it works great. But version 10.3 is currently available, which I will install in the next few days as it has just been released and I always like to wait at least 15 days in case it contains failures.
Install and configure a JS optimization plugin
We will use a free plugin that will help us greatly improve the optimization of our website mounted with Newspaper. This is the “ Fast Velocity Minify ” plugin which can be found in the WordPress plugin repository.
Let's go to the plugins tab
We click on " Add new "
We write the name of the “ Fast Velocity Minify ” plugin
We click on “ Install ” and then on “ Activate ”
Well, now that we have the plugin installed on our website, we must make some configuration changes . They are very simple changes, so let's go with it.
We go to the “ Settings ” tab of our WordPress administration panel and then click on “ Fast Velocity Minify ”. A new window will open where we must click on " Settings ".
In the " Functionality " option we must check all the boxes.
In the option " URL Options " we must check " Force HTTPS URLs "
In the “ HTML Options ” options, check the last box “Cleanup Header”
In " Font Options " we should not mark anything, everything should be empty.
In the “ Google Fonts ” option we leave the first option “ Inline Google Fonts CSS ” marked
In the option “ Font Awesome ” we leave the “ Merge or Inline Font Awesome CSS ” box checked
In the " CSS Options " option, check the box " Preserve the order of CSS files ", " Disable the Print related stylesheets " and " Inline CSS in the footer ".
In the “ JavaScript Options ” option we do not mark anything and we move on to the next opt
And that's all folks, I hope this complete Newspaper optimization guide will help you dramatically improve your score on the new Google PageSpeed Insights.
I have spent a lot of time creating this guide to share it with you, so I would appreciate any comments, questions or suggestions to improve that you want to leave.
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