Check the speed of your website

No matter what you do, always check the speed of your webiste with the wa speed insights. If it is better, you improved, if it is worse... better undo what you did.

  • To check the speed of your website :

Go to your WA dashboard > websites > sitemanager

It looks like this


In the footer menu of your own website dashboard click details


And go to the speed insight section. It looks like this :


Refrech and see the new results.

Just know that speed can be improved in many ways, and this is just a way to check it. You can also click on the google symbol and read their full report. Which most of the time is so technical you better skip that if you do not want to get a headache.



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laparra1 Premium
Good Morning Fleeky,

Exactly, headaches, that is what this mobile-friendly issue is causing me and I am quite fed up.

You know my websites, very simple, left and the middle is occupied by the post text and on the right is the sidebar with widgets.

Some time ago I did a total fiddling with all my plugins to see if I could speed up a bit. Activate, deactivate, making combinations, etc and the whole time checking how the speed was. It did become clear which ones lowered speed considerably so if I could miss them out they went.

Somebody suggested the WP Touch plugin to make your site mobile friendly. It helped with speed, that is true. The extremely negative side was that on mobile there was nothing visible of my website. The only thing you would get was a list of posts. No header photo and no widgets in the sidebar. Looking at the list of posts it could have been any website. Your personal touch, the visual character your website has and which has cost you years to create were completely gone. I took that plugin away.

I checked my sites with WebSideGrader and the speed for mobile seems to be ok, under 3 seconds.

Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Best is to have a great theme
Forget plugins... reduce to minimum

Zakra is great and speedy
https://wordpress.org/themes/zakra/

The best free one i tested so far
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laparra1 Premium
Fleeky, I will look into this.

All the best, Taetske
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laparra1 Premium
Sonny wanted me to tell you that tomorrow, Thursday at 10.00 he has to go to hospital to have tests done for his heart.

Taetske
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Thank you Taetske... just run into this now...
I
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NnurseBecca Premium
Beautifully crafted Fleeky thank you
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Just go for kraken, speedy theme .. and new servers
Wow
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laparra1 Premium
Good evening Rebecca,

Sonny wanted me to tell you that tomorrow, Thursday at 10.00 he has to run some tests on his heart in the hospital.

Taetske
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NnurseBecca Premium
Oh my goodness
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Fleeky Premium Plus
😢
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NnurseBecca Premium
Is he doing alright?
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laparra1 Premium
Good Morning Rebecca,

Here it is 08.20 but he is still sleeping. I will send him a PM and hopefully, hear later during the day what happened yesterday.

All the best, Taetske
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NnurseBecca Premium
Awesome I sure hope he's feeling better
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Give him our kind regards and send him all our blessings
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Babou3 Premium
Thanks for this useful lesson.
It will really help me!

Ingrid
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Welcome Ingrid

Did you install kraken plugin? And ask site support to activate it and move your site?
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keishalina Premium
hey hi fleekie -- wonderful! ... regarding mobile friendly themes, would there be a list of them somewhere? ... thanks kindly ...
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Hey hi

Yes, plenty
Most of them sponsored

Did you search google or bing?

The best i tested was zakra
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keishalina Premium
hey hi fleekie -- thanks & i just also posted a wa question out there and your training is mentioned in it, too! (free advertising.... lol .. :)

all the best, cheerio .. :)
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Lol

I hope it helps many
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keishalina Premium
ok -- yes, did ... and thanks kindly for tip .. will check it out... :)
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Fleeky Premium Plus
❤️🚀
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keishalina Premium
... home 🧡 home ! ...
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hummingbyrd Premium
I am using the Hueman theme and it it mobile friendly. It is a WP theme.
Regards,
Jay
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keishalina Premium
*** hi Jay -- thanks so much for your sharing, cheerio ***
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Joy3 Premium
Wow. A lot of details that are useful. Thank you for the training Fleeky
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Fleeky Premium Plus
Welcome Joy
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