New Theme/Install/Speed

  • 216marketing

    (@216marketing)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    I wanted everyones feedback. Our current theme is 3-4 years old, which is fine, but the site speed is lacking, not terrible, but not as good as it can be.

    I wanted your advice to clean up code, database, everything to get this FAST.

    1. We create a new theme on the current site and delete all the other themes.

    2. We create a brand new install, export pages and post and import it into the new install.

    3. We do a brand new install, manually add pages and posts (401 total).

    What is everyone’s thoughts? I think I got an idea of what we will do, but wanted everyones feedback.

    Thanks so much!

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    It would be a lot of work for no benefit.

    Do some snooping with your browser. Open the browser’s Developer Tools and go to the Network tab. Then open your page. You should see all the requests and how long they take. Some will be cached, and those are fast. Some scripts may be blocking the loading of images. You can learn a lot looking at what is actually slow on your page. Fix the slowest thing, to improve the whole page. You don’t do that by copying the same files to a new install or putting the same data back into a new database or deleting unused files. Most of the time is spent in transfer of data, or scripts in the browser, not in execution on the server.

    Thread Starter 216marketing

    (@216marketing)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hey Joy!

    Thanks for your reply. I get it. There are scripts and items in the theme we used that cannot optimize. It’s fast but I want it blazing fast, LOL.

    So I am thinking this. Brand new install. Export the pages and posts from the live site. Start with the Elementor Hello theme and redesign. Then import the pages and posts?

    What do you think?

    Thanks, great to hear another opinion on this.

    Thread Starter 216marketing

    (@216marketing)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Also the look and feel is getting overhauled anyway, it’s getting a new coat of paint, so why not just do a clean install and import the pages and posts? Thoughts?

    Also the server is blazing fast, 4 php workers, etc, etc.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by 216marketing.
    Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    You haven’t said anything different from your first assumption that replacing files with the same files and the database with the same contents will actually affect the speed somehow. It won’t, so don’t bother. Instead of guessing, do some research to find the bottlenecks, and address those.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    The lighthouse developer tool in the Chrome browser will point out things you can do that will actually improve performance. Some of its recommendations still may not be worth the effort for the little gain returned. Still better than blindly doing things that seem like they would be an improvement but there’s no data to back up the assumption.

    I’m not beyond doing things better simply for the pride of doing something well, but don’t be deceived into thinking it’ll make any noticeable difference in the real world.

    Thread Starter 216marketing

    (@216marketing)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks everyone for the replies.

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    One more thought: by adding Elementor, you will be increasing execution time on the server.

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