What Do You Think is the Fastest Wordpress Theme?

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Hi all, I'm looking to buy a new theme, one thats lightning fast to load but looks nice too.

There's so many to choose from you never know who to believe.

My current theme is Avada but I find it too slow to load and I'm on decent hosting too (Siteground).

Anyone got any suggestions?
 
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Neve from themeisle has been growing on me. Happy with it, they also have a free version.
 
1. Astra Pro
2. OceanWP
3. GeneratePress

You can´t go wrong with any of these but, personally, I love the Astra theme because it has prebuilt sites fully compatible with each of the top page builders on the market.

I think Neve has it as well but, never used this theme before so I can´t really tell. I`ve heard good things about it tho.
 
Most of mythemeshop.com themes are very fast. I tested many themes from there on real sites.

Good luck,
 
I have tried to find fastest wordpress theme last year, now I use Spacious. There are some great tutorials how to make your wordpress faster, so I have deleted lot of unnecesary code and I also use some plugins that should make wordpress faster, like caching etc.. Strongly recomend to read these tutorials, it can help with speed incredibly but of course super fast hosting with good TTFB is the starting point.
 
Chicilikit said:
I have tried to find fastest wordpress theme last year, now I use Spacious. There are some great tutorials how to make your wordpress faster, so I have deleted lot of unnecesary code and I also use some plugins that should make wordpress faster, like caching etc.. Strongly recomend to read these tutorials, it can help with speed incredibly but of course super fast hosting with good TTFB is the starting point.
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yes Ive been using caching plugins for a couple of years now but over time my site seems to have slowed down (maybe it's the traffic). Anyway, I'm moving to a VPS and getting a new theme to ramp up the site. I like this part of SEO...
 
Maybe switch to static? Jekyll has a lot of nice themes, I'm currently testing some, I want to move a site from Blogger.
Just in case http://jekyllthemes.org/ , with HTML sites you'll beat 90% of WordPress themes.
 
Larry Igna said:
Maybe switch to static? Jekyll has a lot of nice themes, I'm currently testing some, I want to move a site from Blogger.
Just in case http://jekyllthemes.org/ , with HTML sites you'll beat 90% of WordPress themes.
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But you won't get access to thousands of useful, tried-and-tested plugins. That's what makes Wordpress so special.
 
Lol, tried-and-tested plugins that often have high risk vulnerabilities and more often than that, are only slowing down your website.
I don't think there is a functionality that you might wanna add to your site that can't be achieved in HTML/Js/CSS. Plugins do just that, add HTML/Js/CSS dinamically to your pages, so why would you need anything else but HTML/Js/CSS?
Well, maybe for a shopping cart, for example, would be harder to achieve that. But for normal websites, blogs etc, static content is always better.
 
Larry Igna said:
Lol, tried-and-tested plugins that often have high risk vulnerabilities and more often than that, are only slowing down your website.
I don't think there is a functionality that you might wanna add to your site that can't be achieved in HTML/Js/CSS. Plugins do just that, add HTML/Js/CSS dinamically to your pages, so why would you need anything else but HTML/Js/CSS?
Well, maybe for a shopping cart, for example, would be harder to achieve that. But for normal websites, blogs etc, static content is always better.
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Great answer! Thanks for your input. And, I've never thought about plugins ADDING MORE CODE and bulking the weight.
 
Larry Igna said:
Maybe switch to static? Jekyll has a lot of nice themes, I'm currently testing some, I want to move a site from Blogger.
Just in case http://jekyllthemes.org/ , with HTML sites you'll beat 90% of WordPress themes.
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I'd love to build a site in html/CSS. If there was a site builder to produce static content but be able to manage the whole site in a manageable way I'd do it. Such as creating place holders for dynamic ads etc and also to create a proper site structure.

Anyone know a way of doing this?
 
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