Hi. I did some testing on Pingdom of the Newspaper theme from my sandbox in WP Engine. The site kept coming in between 3-4 seconds. I ran the test again using a Genesis Magazine theme with a speed of 1.9 seconds from the same sandbox. How are users doing in speeding up your theme? What is the fastest speed you’ve seen so far?
td speed booster + wp rocket + cloudflare and style.css minification your site will load around 1-2seconds
Hi,
blk709 – I suspect you have some optimization issue, please check the guide provided here – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
Thank you!
I know it is not optimized as it is in the sandbox area for staging in WP Engine ie it is not cached. I do not want to bring it live until I understand the theme more. What I am asking is “What is the approximate speed for the site when optimized?”
There is no appropriate “speed” — benchmark. As every web server varies as well as the level of optimization you do to it.. for instance are you optimizing your wp-config.php file ? TTL and additions to your .htaccess, mods to functions.php file to remove redundant code from headers, remove external loading elements, optimize font delivery from Google by taking the code and putting into your style.css file to only load fonts and not the CSS, etc.
Does your hosting account have a 10/100/1000 switch connected to net vs 10/100 ?
Are you running mod_pagespeed or http/2 ?
Each “post” can load at different speed based on content, server optimization, caching, etc.
Server response time is very important (ours is 0.33 seconds and Google complains about that!).
Some basic testing with *no caching* for reference (all include google fonts, and icons font, jquery from google, google fonts).
Some of our pages load in 2 seconds and not fully optimized, but 1.1MB in size, google fonts, non optimized disqus plugin, 3 ad units on page. http and mod_pagspeed basic setting.
Smaller page, 2.01 sec. (no disqus, 2 ad units, google fonts), 950kb.
Now, on a fully optimized page – no caching:
2.09 seconds (per Pingdom), with 100/100 “grade” 271kb, no ads, google fonts, https page!; mod_pagespeed, NO caching. So, 2.09 sec. on the single run (re-run might be quicker due to some server caching on back end), and yet gets 100/100 grade.
Google does like sites with sub 1 sec loading, but this requires massive amount of micro-optimizations and very effective caching, and generally no external content loading (e.g., native fonts, etc.).
Just some food for thought
… I’m actually working on optimizing our new CMS, and going through the same shenanigans to see “best we can do pre caching” — meaning 100/100 pingdom, 100/100 UX and 98/100 speed on Google Pagespeed insights (hard to get 100/100 consistently it seems … I tweak it, then they hit me with the 0.33 server response too slow!!!).
Always a fun time! 🙂
