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Worried about speed – theme issue?

This topic has 17 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 8 months ago ago by chndr

Puretreats

Participant

April 18, 2016 at 14:44

I have been really worried about how slow my site seems to be using this theme. I did a speed test and it came out at 22.07sec to load which is shocking. I have then done a speed test with the legenda demo site and that came back slow too with the result – 8.22 sec Your website is slower than 82% of all tested websites. Not as bad as mine but not a great result.

Is there issues with the theme and can these be overcome? I’m worried about continuing to design the site if it can’t be quicker or is there anything I can do differently to make sure it’s not so slow as these load rates are unacceptable.

Many Thanks

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

April 18, 2016 at 15:14

Hello,

You can speed up the site following the suggestions from these articles:
http://techtage.com/speeding-up-wordpress-sites/
http://www.sparringmind.com/speed-up-wordpress/
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/wordpress/heartbeat-ajax-php-usage#heartbeat-in-action
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-best-image-optimization-plugins-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-site/
http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/optimize-images-for-your-wordpress-website

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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Puretreats

Participant

April 18, 2016 at 17:32

I’ve been advised that there are missing links that are slowing it down, but i’m not sure how to fix them. The main one seems to be http://pure-treats.co.uk/wp-content/themes/legenda/custom.css?ver=2.11

Do you know how I can correct this link?

Also is this a concern, I have lots of
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 12)
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 54)
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 55)
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 109)
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 220)
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 327)
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 358)

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

April 18, 2016 at 18:51

Hello,

Either create custom.css file in the directory wp-content/themes/legenda (to add your own style changes in the file) or disable it in Theme Options > Custom CSS.

Also please provide us with WP Dashboard credentials in private content.

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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Puretreats

Participant

April 19, 2016 at 14:15

I have disabled the custom css in theme options but it still appears. I’ve added my WP login for you. Many Thanks

Please, contact administrator
for this information.

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Eva Kemp

Participant

April 19, 2016 at 15:00

Hello,

Please check the test result page http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160419_ES_YQW/1/details/ . As you can see slow loading is caused by images. You need optimize them.

Also please show a page where you see the warnings:
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 12)
[Warning] Invalid CSS property declaration at: * (style.css, line 54)

Thank you.
Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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chndr

Participant

April 19, 2016 at 17:14

@puretreats

I had this problem also for a long time.

Did you installed thge demodata?

I have fixed my slow website with optimizing all the images with the plugin EWWW Image Optimize and I also use the cache plugin WP Rocket. I choosed WP Rocket because it is fully compatible with Woocommerce. All the other chaching plugins caused many issues.

See my topic here:
https://www.8theme.com/topic/slow-website-try-this/

I started with a pagespeed of 15/100 on pagespeed insight:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Now my pagespeed is 87/100

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

April 19, 2016 at 18:07

Hello @chndr,

Thank you for sharing the solution.
We appreciate it.

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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Puretreats

Participant

April 21, 2016 at 10:31

Thanks @chndr I did install the demo content, is there a way to remove this now I don’t need it?

I also have purchased WP Rocket to try and help. Going to go through the documentation a 2nd time as it doesn’t seem to have made much difference to the speed of the site.

Eva – the CSS warnings are showing on the homepage when I look at the page source code: http://www.pure-treats.co.uk

[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (settings.css, line 901)
[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (mediaelementplayer.min.css, line 1)
[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (mediaelementplayer.min.css, line 1)
[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (js_composer.min.css, line 1)
[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (js_composer.min.css, line 1)
[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (js_composer.min.css, line 1)
[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (js_composer.min.css, line 1)
[Warning] Unexpected CSS token: : (js_composer.min.css, line 1)

Would really appreciate any help on how to get rid of these?

Thanks Rachel

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

April 21, 2016 at 11:55

Hello @Puretreats,

The warnings are related to Visual Composer plugin.
Have you tried optimizing images?

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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Puretreats

Participant

April 21, 2016 at 12:51

Hi Jack,

I have installed EWWW image optimizer. Speed test results are 55/100 with that and WP Rocket activated. I’ve removed meta data from the images too.

On pingdom when I test the speed I get http://www.pure-treats.co.uk
Tested from Dallas, Texas, USA on April 21 at 12:49:42
Page size
3.2MB
Load time
21.84s
Requests
85
Perf. grade
75/100
Your website is slower than 93% of all tested websites

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chndr

Participant

April 21, 2016 at 12:58

Hi @puretreats

Now you have installed EWWW Image Optimize you can optimize all the images via Dashboard > Media Library > Bulk optimalisatiob

If you haven’t done that yet I really advise you to do

Kind regards,
Chander

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Puretreats

Participant

April 21, 2016 at 13:03

Thank you @chndr, I have already optimized them all. Most were reduced by 5-10%.

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

April 22, 2016 at 10:56

Hello @Puretreats,

We’ve improved our theme as much as we could. And we have already emphasized if someone of our customers has experience in development and has proposals concerning changes in the theme (we mean only specific changes in the code in particular files, rather than general phrases like “Reduce CSS File” etc), we are asking to declare them here or contact us via the contact form https://www.8theme.com/contact-us/

Thank you for understanding.

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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Puretreats

Participant

April 25, 2016 at 12:27

Sorry I don’t understand your response, are you saying that there is no solution to help with the speed of the site unless a customer who has website coding knowledge can do it themselves?

I’ve installed both EWWW Image optimize and WP Rocket and am getting results from my speed test of http://www.pure-treats.co.uk
Tested from on April 25 at 12:05:33
Page size
3.2MB
Load time
27.19s
Requests
79
Perf. grade
75/100
Your website is slower than 94% of all tested websites

Surely a load speed of 27 seconds is unacceptable?! I would really appreciate some help as to whether this is a theme issue or something that can be solved. I don’t want to spend weeks putting a site together to find it’s too slow to be usable.

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Eva Kemp

Participant

April 25, 2016 at 13:25

Hello,

We just wanted to tell that we made all possible modifications to optimize the theme.
Perhaps your site loading is based on server configuration. Also check your site with other theme, for example https://www.woothemes.com/storefront/ .

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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chndr

Participant

April 25, 2016 at 13:40

@puretreats

Did you also remove all the dummy content from the theme? All the pages you dont use and delete all the images? Also deleted all the revisions of your posts and pages?

It is strange that your website is that slow.

Since I clean up my website and use the WP Rocket with EWWW Image optimize my website have a very good score. 87/100 on PageSpeed Insights and with http://tools.pingdom.com I score 81% better then all tested websites.

I really think you have to contact your webhosting because all the other users of the Legenda theme doesn’t have such a big pagespeed problem.

Kind regards,
Chander

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