Reply 285740 to: I have installed Xstore Theme it is too slow, Please help me to be quick!
amongthieves
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April 28, 2021 at 20:29
It is NOT the theme. I am so tired of people sayging “xstore made my site slow” no, its your host or your lack of knowledge of how to properly set up a site.
My site? Heres some info about it:
– Xstore installed – all features turned on
– 4,000+ products
– 27 active plugins including 3 elementor addon plugins, many other heavy plugins
– 1,000’s of customers a day, 100’s of orders a day.
And guess what? My performance rating is a A- and my score is a 93, all green across all categories, no issues. Its because i run my site through a VPS and also a CDN, my server uses LiteSpeed Cache, my site is properly setup with caching and minifying, the biggest thing that helped was setting up firewall rules at the server level, to cut out the thousands of bots and hacker attempts before they even have a chance to drain my servers resources. This was the single most important thing i did with the biggest results to performance. I had around 20,000 connections to my server a day from bots, hackers, spam, brute force attacks, etc. Setting up firewall rules stopped all of it. I havnt had a “failed login attempt” in over 6 months now. I also turned off XMLRPC which was a huge doorway for hackers killing my servers resources with hundreds of login attempts a minute.
Get your server/hosting in order, get your caching and minifying in order, optimize all your photos with .webp on a CDN, and run your site through a CDN and make sure to setup the firewall rules (very advanced thing so you will most likely have to pay someone to do this properly, took me a while to learn what to put to stop the bots and attacks).
