Let's reduce page size (optimize performance)

This topic has 6 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 8 months ago ago by Eva Kemp

  • Avatar: f1websites
    f1websites
    Participant
    March 19, 2015 at 20:46

    Hi support,

    Upon taking a good look at this site a couple of weeks back, we as F1 Websites have been trying to optimize the performance because the site was quite slow.

    I found that mostly the site was large, over 4 MB. By optimising our images on the home, we have shaved it down to 3.7 MB. In my opinion this is too much for any page, especially the home page.

    To get a good look of the size of the theme, I tested a page with very little user content, just four paragraphs of terms & conditions, no images. Page size there was 3 MB, see:
    http://fpt.pingdom.com/#!/eHT1nW/https://www.volendamcosmetics.nl/leveringsvoorwaarden/

    Having such a heavy site by itself, this conflicsts with the speed and optimization promise on your ThemeForest sales page for this theme where you show this image https://www.8theme.com/images/themeforest/royal/Speed.jpg

    Can we collaborate to make the theme even better and faster?

    Thanks & regards,
    – Frank

    5 Answers
    Avatar: Eva
    Eva Kemp
    Support staff
    March 19, 2015 at 21:01

    Hello,

    You can speed up the site following the suggestions from these articles:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization
    http://techtage.com/speeding-up-wordpress-sites/
    http://www.sparringmind.com/speed-up-wordpress/

    Thank you.
    Regards,
    Eva Kemp.

    Avatar: f1websites
    f1websites
    Participant
    March 19, 2015 at 21:53

    Sure I can speed up WordPress myself – and we indeed did so. Now it comes down to the theme code and structure. The theme is too heavy by itself. Please have a look at the test results.

    Avatar: Eva
    Eva Kemp
    Support staff
    March 20, 2015 at 14:13

    Hello,

    We’ve taken this issue into our account and will try to optimize theme files in the next update.
    Sorry for inconveniences.

    Regards,
    Eva Kemp.

    Avatar: f1websites
    f1websites
    Participant
    March 22, 2015 at 12:40

    OK thank you very much.

    Regards,
    – Frank

    Avatar: Eva
    Eva Kemp
    Support staff
    March 22, 2015 at 20:38

    Hello,

    You’re welcome.

    Regards,
    Eva Kemp.

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