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We encounter several performance issues on our WordPress Web Page http://www.ultramixer.com. We use the latest version 4.7.6.1 and have setup the whole WordPress project in a new local environment. Even after disabling all our plugins (~70), it takes between 11 and 18 seconds to load the landing page. In the “performance” settings, we enabled both “merge and compress all theme css and javascript files” without any noticeable or measurable effect (using Google Chrome’s network inspector for resource loading).
Can you please give us some advice how we can speed up the Enfold theme in general? When we use a default WordPress theme, the initial loading time is way shorter (at most 5 seconds). Thank you already in advance!
Hey ultramixer,
Thank you for the inquiry.
According to the gtmetrix tool (see private field), most of the images in the home page are bigger than they should be. You may have to resize the images manually and use an image compression tool to further decrease the size of the images.
The recommendations in the following article should help optimize the speed of the site.
// https://kriesi.at/archives/scoring-100-100-in-google-pagespeed-insights-gtmetrix-pagespeed-and-yslow
Best regards,
IsmaelHey Ismael,
thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I think the issue with our big images is not the solution. As I mentioned before, when we switch to a default WordPress theme, the page loads at least twice as fast as with Enfold – using the same sized images. Moreover, modern browsers should be able to handle load balancing and we also use caching plugins.
Could you please investigate a little more and give us some advice how we could optimize the Enfold theme configuration to speed up our page?
Best regards
Hi,
As I mentioned before, when we switch to a default WordPress theme, the page loads at least twice as fast as with Enfold
It also doesn’t contain half of the features that Enfold or any other premium themes have, so it’s quite expected that the default theme will load faster than any premium themes available in the market out of the box. More features require more resources.
Again, you can start off by manually resizing and optimizing the images to decrease the overall size of the page, then install an image compression plugin like ShortPixel to further decrease the file size of the images.
After optimizing the images, you can gradually implement the other recommendations in the article that we posted above to optimize the loading speed of the site. To learn more about site optimization, please check this article.
// https://gtmetrix.com/wordpress-optimization-guide.html
Best regards,
Ismael
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