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web.dev/measure performance
1 reply · Started by Adele on March 8, 2021
Based upon the claims it is the fastest WordPress theme, we purchased GeneratePress Premium, and used Elementor to rebuild a website (previously created in Divi). The old Divi site was bloated, very poor web.dev performance. We further optimised all images with tinypng, reduced the amount of images, plugins, everything, and the site performance has not improved unfortunately. Contacted the hosting company who assure us gzip compression is enabled and there are no problems with the hosting server. Any advice given on improving performance / speed, would be very much appreciated.
Hi there,
just checked your homepage - the is making over 100 requests that total over 3mb (compressed ) of data. You will need to try and minimise the number of scripts/css files that are being loaded. Here are some things to check:
1. Google Fonts - if you can reduce the number of differnt font familiy/styles being used on the site this will reduce the number of requests to googles font servers.
2. Youtube videos - adds a lot of overhead to the site - several optimization plugins provide options to defer the loading of the scripts until the user clicks on them. Heres one of those plugins:
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/lazy-load-for-videos/
3. Google Maps - is another hight overhead element - again there are some plugins that can defer their loading - like this one which only loads the map if the user wants it loaded:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/aweos-google-maps-iframe-load-per-click/
4. Font Awesome Icons - not sure where Elementor is with this but FontAwesome provides an SVG option that only loads the icons you're using. Currently your site loads 3 x FA font libraries.... check for the SVG option in your FA Icons - this should remove those requests.
The rest of the requests being made come from Elementor and the other plugins your using.
