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Hello,
Your theme does look great. Unfortunately, it seems to be slow.
After optimizing all the images it’s steel 20 points in Pagespeed Insights.
After buying and running WP Rocket it’s still 40 points.
Other services also show very slow speed (about 4.5 secs for loading).
No so much content, but very slow.
What could be the problem?
Google says DOM structure is too big (2500) and complicated. Does it mean that structure of theme itself is not polished enough?
P.S. Uppermentioned was about mobile devices, not computers.
Hi @podsolnuhi,
I hope you are well today and thank you for your questions.
What could be the problem?
There can be various other reasons why your site is loading slow as described in the following pages.
https://www.bitcatcha.com/blog/2015/10-frustrating-reasons-why-your-website-speed-is-slow/
https://www.pickaweb.co.uk/kb/website-running-slow/
https://gtmetrix.com/why-is-my-page-slow.html
You can improve your site performance as described in the following pages.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-performance-speed/
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/WordPress_Performance
https://wpengine.com/blog/page-speed-wordpress-performance/
https://themetrust.com/test-wordpress-site-performance/
To optimize images and load them faster, you can use any of the following plugins.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
Google says DOM structure is too big (2500) and complicated. Does it mean that structure of theme itself is not polished enough?
No, it depends on how you have created the pages using any page builder.
P.S. Uppermentioned was about mobile devices, not computers.
You can increase mobile site speed using below solutions.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-setup-google-amp-on-your-wordpress-site/
Best regards,
Shufflehound teamSorry, but these are just common words. I already use most of the solutions you provided.
- The DOM problem exists on only one page – the home one. And I totally took it from the demo. Didn’t build anything. Just removed few widgets.
- I have already optimized my images. The home page is just 1,6 MB.
- I have fast servers with gzip, expires headers, late versions of PHP and all the stuff described by you.
- I have the best cashing and performance plugin running – WP Rocket.
- My hosting provider is good – all my other sites on the same servers run very fast.
- I can use AMP but it’s very specific solution – bad for design, plugins are really controversial (3,5 points is not enough) and so on.
BTW, mobile version of your theme don’t look good – main slider is wider than the screen of my Iphone 6+. It looks like your theme is not really responsive.
Do you get the same issue on our below Demo site?
Yes, it’s even worse.
Could you please share the screenshot of it?
Here you go.
Now sure where you are testing it and I don’t understand the language in your shared screenshot but I tested it on gtmetrix.com site as following and the result displays fine as shown in the attached screenshot.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/gillion.shufflehound.com/Bw8baUhH
I’m testing with Google Pagespeed Insights. As I said in the first post here.
You can easily check it yourself. Points there are extremely low. That will be bad for SEO.
Are you checking the site for speed or SEO?
I am a bit confused so please advise.
So you admit that Google Pagespeed scores are low and there’s nothing you can to about it?
Yes, we only test it on https://gtmetrix.com
Hi, I am using your demo content and have tested the site at gtmetrix. See values? What about that?
Then it means you have not followed WordPress performance optimization as described in my below reply posted above in this topic.
https://support.shufflehound.com/forums/topic/theme-is-slow/#post-40827
- Evaluating the real loading speed of the site is a hard task. All the services that we have are just hints about real situation. The real situation is always different (cause speed of internet connection of the users, their locations, devices, browsers and so on vary).
- For any site it’s good to have good scores in every evaluating service.
- Google Pagespeed is one of the most influential services. You cannot just ignore their score and say “Hey, look at Gmetrix!”
- Google Pagespeed score may be used by Google to defy your position in search results. Most of the experts agree, that this score can influence SEO results.
- I asked you for help in achieving better scores in Google Pagespeed.
- You answered that I have to look somewhere else and just ignore the score.
- Is it really how support supposed to work? I thought that you are helping us to achieve our goals with your theme. That you are fixing the problems, not convincing that they don’t matter.
- Should I understand your reply as “we cannot do anything about Google Pagespeed score, just accept it and pray for better SEO”?
Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions.
We will try our best to improve the page load speed of the theme in the future version of the theme.
In the meanwhile, you can improve it as described in my below reply posted above in this topic or consider hiring a developer to do this.
https://support.shufflehound.com/forums/topic/theme-is-slow/#post-40827
