Improved Pageload
Hello,
I was wondering if you guys got any tips on how to increase the pageload performance.
I'm currently using Betheme which i assume is a little bit bloated.
With current speed tests beTheme performs 2 - 6 times slower then my previous theme (porto).
Porto loads within: 1.2 - 1.8 seconds + -
BeTheme loads within: 3 - 6 seconds.
Do you have any tips or ideas how i can improve this performance? as this will affect pretty much everything, from page visitors to pagerank with search engines.
Regards,
Marco
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If your website is slow, we recommend to use W3Total Cache plugin. As you can see, our demo in Google Page Speed Insight tool got 86/100 what is very good result. Just take a look on https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http://themes.muffingroup.com/betheme/&tab=desktop
Without images it is about 94 or 96/100 but we can`t remove them or modify because we got too many pages included and they must look perfect on all devices.
Hope this will help you!
In the past we tried to optimize those files but we didn`t found any way to do that because it is technically not possible but those files are necessary so theme is customizable. If you will find any way to optimize those files then we really appreciate if you can share it with us but probably you won`t find anything.
But maybe you should think about better hosting? Because if you will have a look on our demo http://snag.gy/ZJesq.jpg you will see style-colors.php file is 131ms but style.php 133ms what is good result.
BTW It is not possible to compare Be to default theme for example. Default theme does not have anything. Also we don`t know what theme you used before but maybe it was theme with much less possibilities and then it is normal thing that Be must work a little bit slowly then poor themes.
As we wrote, styles in style-colors.php and style.php files are always generated dynamically because colors comes from database. That`s why those files can`t be cached and can`t load faster. The only thing you can do is get styles from this files when site is finished and loaded, move them to regular css files, like style-colors.css and style.css files and then files can be cached and site will work faster.
As we showed you above, for Google tools this theme works very well and we think this is the most important. But if you will find any other things that can be improved then will be great if you will share your solution with us.
Thanks!
/style-colors.php -> /style-colors.css
re: the @import, did you just remove them from the style sheets indicated in gtmetrix? Or do you need to replace them with something else?
also I have not been able to minify css with W3C without it breaking my site.
Thanks for the info here in this thread! I have referred back to it several times.
BTW We take all your suggestions into account and with next update we would like to improve page speed as you explained above. This is really helpful! Thanks man
comparison shot from GTmetrix
http://imgur.com/dQreetN
BTW Take a look into explanation why homepage loads more slowly than other pages and you will understand that everything what can be improved in code has been improved and the only thing that can`t be improved are IMAGES! We can`t remove them because images must be in HD.
Thanks for understanding!
@Muffingroup --> you can consider making a new feature like "export" optimized theme
But thanks for whole your explanation anyway! We really appreciate it.