Been working on fixing Google PageSpeed Insights Size Tap Targets Appropriately warnings for this website and the WordPress theme I develop (Stallion Responsive: which is running on this site). Version 8.0 of Stallion Responsive was released (February 2014) before Google added Size Tap Targets Appropriately warnings in May 2014 (weird name for the warnings, “Appropriately”!) to it’s PageSpeed Insights Tool output: part of the new Mobile User Experience results. Size Tap Targets Appropriately When Google added those new pagespeed metrics for mobile devices my PageSpeed Insights scores for mobile user experience dropped in May: looks like they’ve completely changed the rating system, I was getting 90/100 before the changes, after May was significantly lower. It’s taken two days and a […]
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Mobile Responsive WordPress Themes
Might help with developing mobile responsive WordPress themes if I actually used a mobile phone.
I own a mobile phone, but I only use it for four things.
Taking pictures occasionally.
A bird sounds application that’s awesome for identifying birds and for some birds attracting them in.
A light.
For an emergency when out and the odd call. Think I bought the phone almost a year ago (Nokia Lumia 620 Windows 8 phone) with a Pay as You Go contract and still not used the £15 credit (about £3 left).
Don’t see the appeal of browsing websites with a tiny screen, I find it annoying.
David
Mobile Responsive WordPress Themes
Google PageSpeed
Hi, David
Will you release the new update of this stallion responsive soon? My google page speed is not good either.
Oh, I placed the single post widget but it did not work and I don’t know why. I thought I followed the right tutorial.
Thank you
Google PageSpeed Insights Tool Results
The Google PageSpeed Insights Tool results appear since May 2014 to give significantly lower results relative to before May.
When I ran this website through the PageSpeed tool in February and kept a copy of the results I had a Desktop result of 98/100, (was with no social media like buttons or AdSense ads on).
Now it’s significantly lower (Desktop 83/100 just now) even though I’ve been fixing most issues. You have to take a hit for running AdSense, their code doesn’t pass their own PageSpeed Insights tests and most of the issues are AdSense and Facebook: Nothing I can do about AdSense, might be able to do something about Facebook.
Looking for better ways to achieve things to get back into the green WITH AdSense and like buttons active (turn them off and it’s relatively easy).
Have you followed the advice on the Stallion Performance Options page? Stallion Responsive can’t do everything website performance wise, if you have a rubbish host no changes can fix that.
See “Stallion Theme” >> “Performance Options” for suggestions.
Are you running:
W3 Total Cache Plugin
EWWW Image Optimizer Plugin
I don’t add features to Stallion if there are already good well supported plugins that do exactly what I want, both the above do what I want so won’t be adding caching or image optimization to Stallion (why reinvent the wheel). Also consider the WP Optimize Plugin, it optimizes your database on a regular basis which can speed a site up a little.
Is Gravatar Cache ON?
Have you gone to “Tools >> Stallion Regenerate Thumbnails” and regenerated your images.
Regarding the single Posts widget, go to the Single Posts Widgets Tutorial create a comment there and explain what you did and we’ll go from there. Can’t diagnose and issue with so little information.
Working on releasing Stallion Responsive 8.1 before the end of July 2014, but I tend to fall into the feature creep trap (keep adding new features), so we;ll see…. The Stallion Responsive colour Scheme Creator v8.1 is awesome, the CSS files and the PHP backup (for making more modifications later) are saved to the Stallion Responsive child theme folder automatically, no need for copying and pasting and FTP to create a new colour scheme. I updated the 40 built in colour schemes with new font sizes to remove the mobile tap size issues (created new CSS and PHP backup files) in under an hour.
David
Google PageSpeed Insights Tool Results