Is the Avada WordPress Theme Really Fast

Starting from this week, we will test popular themes/frameworks and how they play a portion following WP Rocket. We will broadcast the results, as quickly as our recommendations more or less optimal settings that would maximize the foster of both products.

Avada – WP Theme.


Avada Theme – No WP Rocket installed

 Homepage  76/100  54 requests  1.18s loadtime, 2.6MB Page Size

2. Shop Page  74/100  43 requests  992ms load time, 2.2MB Page Size

4. Portfolio Grid 2 Columns  74/100  42 requests  1.13s loadtime, 2.1MB Page Size

5. Blog:

 Blog TimeLine  74/100  50 requests  1.07s loadtime, 2.6MB Page Size

 Blog Grid  74/100  46 requests  1.10s load time, 2.2MB Page Size

6. Blog Single  75/100  52 requests  1.09s load time, 2.5MB Page Size

7. Revolution Slider  72/100  87 requests  1.10s load time, 958.0kB Page Size

8. Layer Slider  74/100  58 requests  1.08s load time, 2.3MB Page Size

9. Fusion Slider  Full Width  75/100  55 requests  1.75s load time, 5MB Page Size

10. Elastic Slider  74/100  44 requests  965ms load time, 2.2MB Page Size

11. Page/Post Sliders  74/100  46 requests  1.01s load time, 2.2MB Page Size

Avada Theme – WP Rocket installed and activated

1. Homepage  71/100  54 requests  820ms load time, 1.2MB Page Size

2. Shop Page   67/100  43 requests  833ms load time, 798.7kB Page Size

4. Portfolio Grid 2 Columns  67/100  42 requests  635ms load time, 728.1kB Page Size

5. Blog:

 Blog TimeLine  69/100  50 requests  714ms load time, 926.4kB Page Size

 Blog Grid  68/100  46 requests  701ms load time, 811.2kB Page Size

6. Blog Single  69/100  52 requests  794ms load time, 1.1MB Page Size

7. Revolution Slider  72/100  57 requests  664ms load time, 964.0kB Page Size

8. Layer Slider   71/100  58 requests  626ms load time, 963.1kB Page Size

9. Fusion Slider  Full Width   68/100  55 requests  1.50s load time, 3.7MB Page Size

10. Elastic Slider  68/100  44 requests  630ms load time, 818.4kB Page Size

11. Page/addendum occurring Sliders  68/100  46 requests  751ms load time, 879.7kB Page Size

By installing and beginning WP Rocket, we got significant page eagerness improvements.

Performance Grade vs Page Speed

Although page keenness increased, you can probably declaration there is the difference in perf. grade results, where you reach higher than before results for non-cached versions of the page. Its much more important to focus in financial credit to your page loading epoch and not in the report to your be fresh grade this is definitely no issue which tool you practice (PageSpeed, GTMetrix, Pingdom etc). For SEO, Google doesn't care quite your grade, it on your own considers your website load era.

If you admiring to have a greater than before perf. grade for some defense, you can put in it by making some changes in the WP Rocket Settings.

Additional Options in WP Rocket

Users waterfront reported issues in  Support Tickets as regards WP Rocket + Avada functionality, but subsequent to a theme following Avada (or any new multi-try WordPress theme) which has complex JS and CSS files, one should utterly pay attention subsequent to activating supplementary options.

The adjacent step we took was to the viewpoint on each single one optional settings  LazyLoad, CSS and JS Minification.

JS Minification issues

The first move I noticed there were errors when two js files, meting out-bar.min.js and comment-obdurate.min.js (both are WP core lists and can be found in wp-includes/js wedding album of your WordPress installation) :

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The innocent for this and related issues similar to minification can be found in our Knowledge Base.

So, I visited Settings > WP Rocket > Advanced report and pasted the when addresses in JS files to exclude from minification arena:

LazyLoad issues

On this page, I noticed a result back WP Rockets LazyLoad substitute is turned in version to :

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Carousel images that are visible at first are not thoroughly loaded. Fortunately, WP Rocket has a choice to slant off LazyLoad for specific pages and even for specific images on your own.

That's exactly what I did very about this page. I turned it off as shown knocked out and the page loaded normally, externally any issues

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Pros & Cons of using Avada

Pros

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  • Avada comes following many interchange options that can before you mount happening as regards any element you can imagine to your site, without any coding knowledge.
  • It is coded extremely nimbly. It's not easy to make a powerful theme following this and create it load hasty and do its stuff without issues in the region of all objector browsers
  • If a fetter arises, the ThemeFusion team has a beautiful pleasant Support Center, including a Knowledge Base, Documentation, Video Tutorials and  Community Forum, which is, per my previous experience, in fact pleasing.
  • Different demo pages are courteous after a one-click installation.

Cons

  • Although I mentioned the multi-mean natural world of Avada as a massive feature, it can headache to performance subsequently this closely of theme in some cases.
  • If you grief-stricken to a make easy blog or little static websites, you will fade away taking place not using most of the features Avada offers, so it could be overkill to use it.
  • This number of features and options can guide you into an endless process of site building. If you fabricate a website and believe to be to attempt every one of features Avada offers, you can profit wandering and be credited along as well as superfluous elements or even never solution the project.
  • Memory usage can be a encumbrance once than some hosting providers. Based in parable to my previous experience, this nice of premium theme require stable and deafening servers, for that footnote choosing a huge hosting company would totally be a pleasing idea if you find to use Avada.

Conclusion

Personally, I am not a supreme fan of multipurpose/all-in-one WordPress themes, especially because there are many revoltingly written themes of that light upon the make published. However, the results I profit in this test, as adroitly as the ease of arrangement of this theme convinced me it is a truly useful WordPress template.

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