Hi there.
We just updated an old site to the recent version and noticed a huge hit performance wise. We get countless TLS-Handshakes and it takes up to 20 seconds and more to load the site. I already tried the performance options ans set the CSS and JS to merge, but they won’t. If I set the setting to only load items/shortcodes that are needed, the post slider won’t load at all. I already deactivated all plugins and made a fresh functions.php for testing… didn’t help. It gets a bit faster, but it’s still slow.
We did this as a fresh update, copying the recent release per FTP and deleting the old enfold folder before.
Hey Pixel_Production,
Thank you for using Enfold.
How do you check the TLS-handshakes? The initial load time of the site on our end, without cache, is less than 10 seconds and less than 2 seconds on succeeding loads. That is not slow considering that the home page itself is more than 3MB. Have you done any optimization to the site? These articles should help.
// https://kriesi.at/archives/scoring-100-100-in-google-pagespeed-insights-gtmetrix-pagespeed-and-yslow
// https://kriesi.at/archives/4-key-wordpress-image-optimization-tips
You can start with the image compression.
Best regards,
Ismael