Reply To: Site Performance and Speed

Their theme demos are installed on a separate server which dosn’t have the same load times/speed as the main site (appfinite.com). The main site loads fast, but the demos load quickly as well, just not as fast since they’re on a separate server. If your site is slow it could be due to the images you’re using, and the server/host you’re using to load those images. If you’re on a cheap/inexpensive host, then any theme you use will not load as fast as a premium host.

On the Google results it shows that they recommend some javascript improvements and a couple other things….these are all outside of the child theme and have to do with the Genesis framework itself since there is no javascript being used for the Epik theme on home pages/blogs etc.

You can check out a caching plugin like w3 total cache (or any caching plugin) and that will also help decrease your load times.

I personally don’t rely 100% on websites that offer these load times and results. Many of them are not accurate and each one offers different results. I have Epik installed on a few client sites and they all load extremely fast, but if I used one of the analyzers it would probably show a different result. My sites load fast because I use Web Synthesis software since it was designed for WordPress and the Genesis Framework specifically….which is why they load so quickly.