Mobile theme caching

[mlerota]

I am using WP super cache plugin. The site is very fast but mobile theme is not cached. Do you have some recommendation how to enable this? I have tried many things and look for the docs and simply mobile theme is not cached. Other caching plugins like w3 total cache doesn’t display Alyeska mobile theme right so I’m stuck with WP super cache. Here is the web site http:/www.ap-linux.com

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[Jason Bobich]

Hello,

Apologies, but I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean. This theme doesn’t come with any kind of mobile theme that is separate from your standard theme. We code everything to simply scale down responsively with CSS. So, when you view your site on mobile, you’re seeing the exact same site as when you view it on your computer’s browser.

The site is very fast but mobile theme is not cached.

Maybe I’m just misunderstanding. Can you try explaining what you mean by this a little more?

[mlerota]

When you open a page in the web browser it opens in a second. When you view it with mobile browser, it needs 10-15 seconds to open first time. That mobile view or scaling is not cached with cache plugins. When you create your web page, if you want pages to open quickly, you need caching program. For wordpress there are many of them. The most popular are:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ and
http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

This is mandatory today. Everybody uses cache. If you are using cache, the web page will open in a second. But the scaled down mobile version needs 10-15 seconds to open when you view it for the first time. That is something that can be investigated. It’s not a big deal for me and it’s not something that I can’t live without, but it would be nice if we find what’s stopping the mobile view from caching.
Here are speed tests:
http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.ap-linux.com&tab=mobile
http://www.woorank.com/en/www/ap-linux.com
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/

If I find something, I will post here.

[mlerota]

Sorry for disturbing you. I have found a way how to fix this mobile rendering. I have enabled mod_deflate in the Apache configuration file and now the mobile version is loaded in 4-5 seconds which is not so bad. I used this google tool. It’s very helpful when you don’t know where to start…
http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

But it says also that I need to:
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content

And that’s your field. I don’t know JavaScript :-). Is that something that I can do in my theme?

[Jason Bobich]

But it says also that I need to:
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content

One thing you can try on this note is changing the mobile setting for your slider. Currently that is the only thing animated with javascript above the fold on your site.

Under your slider’s settings you have it set to attempt display the entire animated slider on mobile. However instead, you can set it up to just list out the slides as static images or just display the first image of the slider.

This would eliminate any javascript animations above the fold on your site. You can find this setting when you’re editing an individual slider over on the right side under the settings. It should be the last option, I believe.

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