< Does Woo-commerce slow down your website?! >

Ankith K Shetty · Jul 11, 2020

Hi,

I am developing a website. My doubt is - will woo-commerce increase page speed of the website? I am planning to build a website that loads in below 4 seconds.

Ankith K Shetty · Jul 11, 2020

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laur.laurix · Jul 12, 2020

Notice that too....after the last update of woocommerce.....solved via cloudflare minify....page load speed avg. 2.2 sec.

Ankith K Shetty · Jul 13, 2020

laur.laurix said:
Notice that too....after the last update of woocommerce.....solved via cloudflare minify....page load speed avg. 2.2 sec.

Thanks for the reply. Was feeling forever alone here

Mops · Jul 13, 2020

Ankith K Shetty said:
Hi,

I am developing a website. My doubt is - will woo-commerce increase page speed of the website? I am planning to build a website that loads in below 4 seconds.

It will be very difficult to achieve such loading speed.

LinksDomains · Jul 13, 2020

Mops said:
It will be very difficult to achieve such loading speed.

I have never developed a WP site with loading speed which is greater than 2 seconds.
If configured properly, it can load very fast.

Ankith K Shetty · Jul 13, 2020

crossbg said:
I have never developed a WP site with loading speed which is greater than 2 seconds.
If configured properly, it can load very fast.

Awesome, even with woocommerce plugin?

LinksDomains · Jul 13, 2020

Ankith K Shetty said:
Awesome, even with woocommerce plugin?

Yes, it depends on the optimization you make.

Deleted member 15724 · Jul 13, 2020

It's doable. I have one ecommerce site that loads in 4.4s, but I never optimized for speed. I have another that loads in 7s, but that one converts better than the first.

There's a thread here with some great tips on how to lower Wordpress page speed. I can't remember the name, but if you search, you'll find it.

LinksDomains · Jul 13, 2020

Deleted member 15724 said:
It's doable. I have one ecommerce site that loads in 4.4s, but I never optimized for speed. I have another that loads in 7s, but that one converts better than the first.

There's a thread here with some great tips on how to lower Wordpress page speed. I can't remember the name, but if you search, you'll find it.

I think you are talking about this thread - https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/wordpress-optimization-guide-from-3-to-1-second-load-time.1230324/

Deleted member 15724 · Jul 13, 2020

crossbg said:
I think you are talking about this thread - https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/wordpress-optimization-guide-from-3-to-1-second-load-time.1230324/

Yup, that's the one.

juniorweller · Jul 13, 2020

Under 4 seconds? The only thing that would slow down your site that much is loading external sources like ads.

mtj85 · Jul 13, 2020

Wp by itself is very fast. You will slow it down with ads, api calls, or other 3rd party code.
I use woocommerce with tens of thousands of customers and it does work fast.
Consider local caching or some sort of CDN. Cloudflare is free, but for 20$ per month it offers much more. Check their pro plan.

4 seconds load time is something I already consider annoying and non-professionally built.

LinksDomains · Jul 13, 2020

juniorweller said:
Under 4 seconds? The only thing that would slow down your site that much is loading external sources like ads.

No, the main reason are plugins and themes. Some plugins add an insane amount of scripts, styles and requests. A lot of themes come with a bunch of useless code at all, especially those that are made with frameworks.
Unnecessary markup is also a big issue - all builders like WP Bakery add tons of useless markup.

mtj85 · Jul 13, 2020

crossbg said:
No, the main reason are plugins and themes. Some plugins add an insane amount of scripts, styles and requests. A lot of themes come with a bunch of useless code at all, especially those that are made with frameworks.
Unnecessary markup is also a big issue - all builders like WP Bakery add tons of useless markup.

Agree, but you can effectively solve css, scripts and styles with caching or CDN.
But you can't cache external code calls or API calls. So include as little as possible. Woocommerce is local, at least to my knowledge, so it can be cached efficiently. Unless you use stripe or some other external services.

kaudo · Jul 13, 2020

Be sure to manage things like cart fragments where you dont need them. Disabling it will speed the pages a lot.

Ankith K Shetty · Jul 13, 2020

kaudo said:
Be sure to manage things like cart fragments where you dont need them. Disabling it will speed the pages a lot.

Thanks mate

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