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  Posted in: Atelier
• March 20, 2017 at 9:27 pm #317810
  PictureItKids

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  My site is slow to load and only gets a score of 51 on Google Analytics. I’m wondering if any of the Google Analytics suggestions below are related to the theme and if so, how to fix the issues that slow down the site loading time?
  – leverage browser caching (I have a cache plugin activated)
  – render-blocking java-script and css
  – visible content prioritizing
  – minify (I have a minify plugin activated too)
  I attached screenshots for more details. Thanks for your help!

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  March 21, 2017 at 2:02 pm #317903
  David Martin – Support

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  Please use this tool: tools.pingdom.com to see why your site is slow.

  Please run through these steps:

  – Install WP Super Cache or BWP Minify.

  – Ask your host to enable gzip compression

  – Consider serving your resources from a CDN such as MaxCDN

  – The Autoptimize plugin is great to further minify your assets: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/.

  – Before uploading images, be sure you correctly save them for web. Consider installing and running this compression plugin to reduce image size: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/

  – Please read this great article on How to Fix: Parallelize Downloads Across Hostnames Warning

  – If you are using a cheap hosting provider your site will never be super, super fast – consider WPEngine if you want pure speed improvements.

  Thanks.

  April 12, 2017 at 8:55 pm #320819
  PictureItKids

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  I implemented a lot of the above and my speed is not improved. My biggest issue is the render-blocking Java script and CSS. I’m pretty sure this has to do with the theme. How do I fix this?

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  April 13, 2017 at 6:45 pm #321002
  David Martin – Support

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  Hi,

  This is plugin territory, using W3 Total cache allows you to resolve the render-blocking Java script and CSS query. Have you got that setup?

  April 13, 2017 at 7:12 pm #321016
  PictureItKids

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  I tried to add that plugin, but I’m still having a poor score with the same render-blocking issues.

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  April 13, 2017 at 7:42 pm #321022
  Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT

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  Try WP Super cache.

  -Rui

  August 23, 2017 at 12:07 am #331435
  teddyden

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  I also have all the same issues and I don’t think that there is a magical plugin that will fix this issue. I feel the theme is packed with so many features that are not needed for every single site and there is not way to remove them

  August 23, 2017 at 2:46 am #331436
  PictureItKids

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  I hope that’s not the case, as I picked this theme because it was advertised as fast…

  August 26, 2017 at 10:55 pm #331441
  Swift Ideas – Ed

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  Hey @teddyden & @PictureItKids,

  I can assure you that the theme is developed in a way to ensure that it is as quick as it can be, whilst providing as much functionality as our customers desire. The speed you see on our demo site is using the exact same theme that you use, so you can see for yourselves how quick it is. This isn’t modified in any way, and only utilises good hosting, caching, and performance plugins.

  Can I ask what web hosting you are using? This is almost certainly the first red flag for any speed issues you may be having. Happy to take a look further if you can let us know what hosting you are using?

  Thanks,

  Ed

  August 28, 2017 at 3:36 pm #331442
  PictureItKids

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  Bluehost.

  August 30, 2017 at 2:13 am #331445
  Swift Ideas – Ed

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  Shared hosting – if so, this is the reason for the performance. Unfortuantely, shared hosting simply doesn’t cut it for premium WordPress themes.

  Ed

  August 30, 2017 at 3:39 pm #331447
  catalin

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  Same here, getting 1,2 seconds server response time. One thing I noticed that can improve performace is not inserting into the database, theme options that are the default ones. There are about 30 theme related parameters per page. With 1000 products, it can be a lot of extra database entries that are not actually used, in case they are the default ones, because the theme seems to check the values of these parameters and if not there it uses the default values anyways

  Then it seems there are a lot of .woof files that can be combined together and I saw a suggestion to encode these files as .woof2 maybe ?

  August 30, 2017 at 6:01 pm #331448
  PictureItKids

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  thanks, Catalin. What hosting do you suggest then, Ed?

  August 30, 2017 at 7:35 pm #331449
  catalin

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  One more thing (for the creators): here’s your atelier website returning 1,6s page response time!!! with google page speed. So, please stop saying it’s fast. 1,6s response time is awful. Probably you get low values for cached pages which are static (no code processing, no db query/extraction time), so it’s normal they are fast

  August 31, 2017 at 9:49 pm #331454
  PictureItKids

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  So it sounds like the only way to really fix this is to go get a whole new theme? That sounds like a lot of work. Or is there a way to get a simplified version of it that would be faster?

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