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Antonis

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February 26, 2024 at 14:37

Hi and thank you for your response.
Deactivating the revolution slider have no impact at all to the problematic loading behaviour.

If we replace all the XStore plugins replacing it with others, the speed is returning to normal.

We haven’t tried WP Rocket, we are letting it as a last resort but hopefully another solution will come up and we won’t need it.

Strange thing is that in Google Page Speed we are getting a decent score when Inspector -> Network shows 28,5 seconds to load the first page…

Anyway, if you have any other suggestion please let me know.

Thanks again.

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Antonis

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April 3, 2023 at 09:34

I think we lost the point here (my bad maybe) but thank you for your detailed answer.

We will do our best to optimize it further and I really hope it will be usuable in the end. Although I have to say that this seems to be the slowest theme we ever worked with.

It just feels abnormal that in order to make a commercial theme run in acceptable speed, we need to pay for another two subscriptions of speed optimizing tools.

I still feel that we are missing something here on our end…

Anyway thanks again.

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Antonis

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March 31, 2023 at 15:40

We enabled W3 Total Cache plugin which messed up our CSS at some points (even this caused it or your updates, no clue about it but no bid deal, we will try and fix them).
First visit on the website with the plugin enabled takes about 20 seconds and from the second it takes about 6.
Still, even if we keep this configuration, we cannot settle with the huge first visit loadtime.

We contacted our server provider and they responded that they had already optimized it and the resources are more than sufficient to support it.

Could you please inform us what is the standard load time of your theme for the first visit, even without caching, image optimization and css/js minification?
We just want to understand when should we stop trying to make it faster.
If there is nothing else we can do to reduce the loading time significantly we should find an alternative as quick as possible to catch up with all our deadlines.

Thanks a lot in for your time and effort and looking forward for your response.

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Antonis

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March 31, 2023 at 12:34

Can you try again please?

I guess that Wordfence’s firewall blocked you so I uninstalled it.

Thanks.

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Antonis

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March 31, 2023 at 08:52

Sure!

Thanks a lot for your help!

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Antonis

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March 29, 2023 at 10:19

My main concern is that right now, we have only your quickstart demo installed without many changes, with many of its plugins uninstalled.

Even this way, it is by far our slowest eShop (both the frontend and the administration panel) and it just can’t be published like that… Shouldn’t be running smoothly on its own since we didn’t change your configuration and tools?
Consider that we only created about 10-15 products and 8-10 categories. What will happen if we have 500 products in 30 categories later?

1. Reduce initial server response time
We contacted our web server provider and we checked together the available resources which are more than enough and we were told that there is no point on updating it. It will make no difference.

2. Avoid an excessive DOM size
We installed Async JavaScript and chose Defer excluding JQuery. If we have to input anything in the fields, please let me know. Also installed Smush for lazy loading and compressing images.

3. Avoid chaining critical requests
Done Minify CSS -> Theme Options >> Speed Optimization. Load essential resources inline and defer non-essential ones.

4. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
We rather avoid that at this point for small projects. All other installations are working fine so we don’t want to use a CDN for just one of our themes

5. Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy
Can you suggest a free plugin for this job? We don’t want to spend more than the theme’s cost for this installation

Surprisingly, the results are even worse after all the above as you can see here: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/demo01.coreit.gr/mNXGq02q/

Thanks a lot for your help and the detailed answers and I really hope you can solve our issue and make it possible to use it!

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Antonis

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March 28, 2023 at 13:59

Hello again! We optimized as much as we could our server in order to achieve better performance.

We resolved the timeouts and the broken layout styles but the speed remains very slow unfortunately and the eShop we created is just for demonstration, almost empty.

Can you please suggest me a solution to this? We chose the specific theme because we read everywhere that its speed is great but we just can’t make it run even in average/acceptable speed. I guess we are missing something major here.

Thanks a lot in advance.

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