Title: Performance Improvements Last modified: October 26, 2016 --- # Performance Improvements * Resolved [blindpet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blindpet/) * (@blindpet) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/) * Hello, first I want to say thank you for this excellent builder. I knew when I tested it that it would be my favorite! That said, upon staring to use it I have noticed some performance concerns with unnecessary requests and compatibility issues with Autoptimize. * The page I am making is very simple landing page for [WP Bullet](https://wp-bullet.com/). * As you can see there are a few images and some buttons. * Here is a [performance report](https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/Om1H9/https://wp-bullet.com/) from pingdom. * I am using GeneratePress and have already set the h1-h6 tags to use Raleway bold and my content text to Roboto. However, Elementor does not seem to inherit these automatically and always uses Roboto even for headings. I would love if it could inherit heading classes from GeneratePress or any theme for that matter. * As you can see from the performance report my site seems to be downloading both Raleway and Roboto fonts 4 times via Elementor. Why is that? Is it possible to stop this so it uses the already used and requested fonts from the theme itself? * I am not using youtube on my page yet this URL [https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api](https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api) is requested and loaded anyway. Why? * What is this widget-api file [https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-widgetapi-vflQ-R4Us/www-widgetapi.js](https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-widgetapi-vflQ-R4Us/www-widgetapi.js) and is there a reason we don’t self-host it instead of requesting it externally? * The font awesome file has the query string appended, sadly query string remover plugins do not remove query strings from woff files, can you give us the option to disable the query string? * With Autoptimize enabled Elementor page builder will frequently not load or allow saving. Can this be remedied? Viewing 5 replies - 16 through 20 (of 20 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/?output_format=md) 2 * [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/) * (@futtta) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/page/2/#post-8388218) * great arielK-1! now only question remaining; should you disable AO entirely, or just JS optimization? 😉 * Thread Starter [blindpet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blindpet/) * (@blindpet) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/page/2/#post-8388241) * My preference would be JS optimization and only in the editor. I think that JS is the reason the editor sometimes doesn’t load or save * Plugin Author [ArielK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arielk-1/) * (@arielk-1) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/page/2/#post-8388256) * The main problem is really with the JS minify, but note that the AO disabled in the Elementor Editor only, same same like a WP dashboard 🙂 * Thread Starter [blindpet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blindpet/) * (@blindpet) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/page/2/#post-8388283) * I saw you did that [@arielk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arielk/)+1, clever to only enable it there 🙂 * [Learn WP Basics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/learnwpbasics/) * (@learnwpbasics) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-improvements/page/2/#post-8394807) * [@futtta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/), [@arielk-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arielk-1/), [@blindpet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blindpet/) – * Just a quick note to say thank you all for this thread and work 🙂 I have just rebuilt a Gen + DWB + BB site with GP + EL and I have to say that I am very impressed with the work that has been done with EL and AO. * Here are the GTmetrix numbers before AO: * 87/62/6.4/633/80 * And after activating AO on this GP + EL site: * 94/72/2.3/575/29 * WOW! Nothing wrong with that and there are more tweaks to be made 🙂 * Keep up the awesome work! * Cheers! Lyle * BTW, the site is snifflevalve.com - This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Learn WP Basics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/learnwpbasics/). 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