Hello @anoleimaging ,
I’m sorry to hear about this issue.
Do you maybe have a screenshot or exact message from the page speed test results?
My suspicion is that Google page speed test was showing that there are Render Blocking Resouces and it showed files that Hummingbird compressed in Asset Optimization.
In this case, you would need to switch to the Advanced Mode and start moving those files to the Footer (CSS) and also defer for the JS files.
https://premium.wpmudev.org/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hummingbird/#advanced-mode
kind regards,
Kasia
Discovered one of the problems: It doesn’t play well with The Event Calendar. Took the site footprint from less than 500mb to 1gig!
Hello @anoleimaging
Thank you for response but I’m not quite sure what do you mean by “took the site footprint from less than 500mb to 1 gig”. Are you referring to database size or size of files on server?
Does the change happen depending on whether Hummingbird is installed/active (or some of it’s option) or if The Event Calendar is installed/active?
I’d love to assist you further but I’m slightly confused so could you elaborate a bit more on this, please?
Best regards,
Adam
I mean the files on the server. I deleted a folder from Hummingbird’s files (wphb-cache) for The Event Calendar and watched the account go from (over its capacity at) about 1g down to normal of less than 500mb.
Hello @anoleimaging
That’s normal, as long as you have a lot of pages that are getting cached. Keep in mind that each page (post type to be exact) generates a static HTML file on the server, so next time it’s requested, the cached copy is being served instead.
I wonder though, how many posts/pages do you have in your site? Number of plugins?
Thank you,
Dimitris
There aren’t that many pages and not even that many event entries in the Event Calendar.
I think it’s caching dates that have no events. My theory is that it’s somehow saving each calendar date as a page, regardless of content. I don’t know if that’s a flaw of Hummingbird or the Calendar plugin, but I’ve turned off caching for events on the site and it seems to keep the disk space within reason.
