Which wordpress theme is the fastest?

I can say that the Wordpress calendar themes are the fastest. I installed WP Rocket on any site I'm working on and I do a before and after test. Hands down, the calendar themes scored 95 (which is an A) and above before activating WP Rocket. Other sites tested before activating WP Rocket had scores anywhere from 47 (which is an F) to 70's (which is C).

I know some developers sell premium affiliate themes but you can replicate some of them using the built-in Gutenberg Editor or Elementor.
 
I am wondering about Amazon Affiliate websites, so I want to know which WordPress theme is the fastest by your experience till now?


like many have said here generatepress is pretty good. take a look at this, I went with neve, because of it being a "mobile first theme", and google keep saying that mobile indexing is becoming more important.

https://kinsta.com/blog/fastest-wordpress-theme/

I use TheGem theme and its very responsive and easy editable and also quite fast.

https://themeforest.net/item/thegem-creative-multipurpose-highperformance-wordpress-theme/16061685
run away from themefores. I learned of a thing called "theme-lockin" which applies to themeforest themes. source:https://torquemag.io/2015/04/the-real-issue-with-themeforest/

i am on themeforest theme right now, and i have to switch to neve or generatepress. I have to recreate all pages again. it is a pain in the ass, but something that needs to happen soon.
 
I have also purchased themes on Themeforest and the developers go under or just add more junk to their themes like The7 which is one of the bestselling themes on there. I removed it and installed Divi but that has its problems with js, css too. Years ago, I read "Shortcode Madness" by Justin Tadlock at http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/05/02/dealing-with-shortcode-madness who warned everyone about badly coded themes. All Wordpress themes are vetted and only contain clean code.
 
  • If you have some web developing background - Genesis Framework
  • If you DON´T have any web developing background - GeneratePress
Currently, I'm all in for GeneratePress, haven't played with Genesis yet, so may I ask for more detail about why Genesis Framework is more suitable for developers (I'm one too :D)?. Thanks.

Also, I think I'll give Oxygen a try after what you just said :D
 
+1 for GeneratePress

Before choosing any theme or demo, do check on
Code:
https://web.dev/measure
Because that's what you're going to be improving at the end.
 
As others said, GeneratePress is a beast. I'm also satisfied with Veen and Jannah.
 
First of all, stay away from multipurpose or feature-packed themes, they are usually coded-bloated and it will give you nightmares with performance/speed.

Unless you´re on a great, robust, and lightning-fast hosting, obviously.

But, if that´s NOT the case, then, these are my choices...
  • If you have some web developing background - Genesis Framework
  • If you DON´T have any web developing background - GeneratePress
This is the easiest and hassle-free way to build an affiliate site without harming your site´s performance/speed in the process.

But, if you really want to go the extra mile and think looong term then, I highly recommend you check Oxygen.

People often mistakenly think Oxygen is just another page builder and that´s a common misconception.

Oxygen is NOT a page builder is a THEME BUILDER!

By far, the best way to build a custom theme from scratch without having to master HTML, CSS, and JS.

It does, however, require you to know some basic CSS and its learning curve is a bit steep but, I promise you, it will be worth it.

YouTube and Udemy are filled with great and FREE tutorials and courses from where you can learn CSS in no time. It´s really NOT that complicated once you get the hang of it and, Oxygen itself is NOT that hard to learn either.

After you get the hang of it, you can literally build custom themes as you please and, in regards to performance...IS NOT EVEN CLOSE!

These are my 2cc!!

Exactly what I was getting ready to type out. You are right on all that.

A little cheat for people who want to create their own theme but not great at design, you could purchase the assets for a design mockup and reskin/adjust it to your site. Just a thought.
 
Is this ok with the current theme I am using?
 

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Is this ok with the current theme I am using?

FCP and LCP depends on theme, caching and hosting.

But CLS completely depends on theme. And score of 1.143 for CLS is really bad.

You need to find better hosting and better theme.
 
Yes, I heard about Oxygen many times even I watched some tuts on Youtube. My concern is to use the blog asap, so to learn O2 I need to give time but definitely go for it for future websites. Currently, I am using myThemeShop Publisher theme which is lightweight but how you can define it with GeneratePress with Publisher?
Can't agree more.. new users tend to bite the "wow #1 best seller multi purpose best theme" which comes with 100s of BS hardcoded options that most of the time no one use, but need semi super computer to load for under 1sec. And of course the "pro devs" blame hosting providers.

Oxygen is great theme builder.
Currently, I'm all in for GeneratePress, haven't played with Genesis yet, so may I ask for more detail about why Genesis Framework is more suitable for developers (I'm one too :D)?. Thanks.

Also, I think I'll give Oxygen a try after what you just said :D
Exactly what I was getting ready to type out. You are right on all that.

A little cheat for people who want to create their own theme but not great at design, you could purchase the assets for a design mockup and reskin/adjust it to your site. Just a thought.
Something I forgot to mention about Oxygen is that is perfect if you´re running an agency or building websites for clients.

Why?

It let you export your design in Gutenberg blocks. So, your clients don´t even need to have Oxygen installed on their site. They can just access everything from Gutenberg,

Furthermore, you can also assign permissions to these Gutenberg blocks in order to avoid clients messing with the design too much.

I also would like to leave this video comparison here between Oxygen and all the other page builders...

I know it´s from Oxygen´s developers but, still, I think it´s pretty valid.

Cheers!
 
I would go with Neve and GeneratePress bud :)


i learned about neve few weeks ago. so far I really like it. may I know how did you come across it? also do you use gutenberg or another page editor?
 
GeneratePress & Kadence.
Kadence is easier to customize if you are not good at developing skill
 
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