Enfold too slow?

Thank you! This is my website

1) The slowness started at the end of December and rapidly deteriorated in Jan/Feb. I do not know if it coincided with something you did on your theme, but FYI.
2) I installed an RUM plugin called Vikinguard. Using its “fast test” function, the slowest request is:
HTML https://www.interactiongreen.com/
Status 200
Header size 986
Body size 368977
Time 1339
Then I also have
JS https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/cache/min/1/wp-content/themes/enfold/js/avia-compat.js?ver=16
This requires 83 ms to load.
3) In addition, someone in GSC community pointed out that
“It looks like you are doing a trick where the main image is not loaded until user interaction. That may fool LCP for now, but it does not cause a good user experience, and I expect the LCP algorithm will pick up on these tricks in the future. They may even dish out manual penalties for people deliberately trying to get good CWV scores by deception.”
It turns out this is about Avia Layout full slider. Avia media has been causing headache for me, especially as I couldn’t figure out how to use them with performance optimization tools (I use WPRocket right now.)

Then, he also pointed out: “I suspect your biggest speed issue is the server response time for the HTML. Did you change hosting at some point? Response time for static resources on that site seems fast. This indicates the issue may be related to the time it takes your WordPress site to build the HTML. Maybe the theme or a plugin is slowing it down.”

I’ve already deleted plugins I do not use.

Thanks for checking.

That’s exactly my problem. I get good scores on Page Speed test or GT Metrix. Almost 100%. HOWEVER, Google Search Console keeps saying it takes more than 4s to load my pages. All of them, not only image-heavy pages etc. It’s abysmal (see the links below). GSC community experts say page speed tests etc. are lab tests, and cannot predict real user experience. GSC is saying real user experience for my web is bad. (your experience seems to be good, but apparently GSC doesn’t think so)

Vikinguard is a real user experience plugin. I copy pasted Viginguard results and GCS community replies etc. in the above message. Did you see them and do you have any suggestions? If “it loads fast on my computer” is only thing you can suggest, unfortunately I will have to try other themes. Especially as Vikinguard says it takes the longest time to load html for the website and the other article says Enfold is the second slowest WP theme…Of course your theme may not be the problem, but as I cannot find anything else right now, all I can do is to change theme unless you have any suggestions to improve the situation.

>Isn’t that all you need really?
Unfortunately as long as Google says my site is slow for whatever the reason is, it affects my ranking etc. and page visits from Google organic search plummets. Plus the fact that you can load my pages fast doesn’t mean other people can. (or Google bot can).
Anyway it looks like this is not going anywhere, so I will try to switch theme. Thanks. You can close this case.