{"id":319939,"date":"2015-12-17T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-rocket.me\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:22:03","slug":"how-fast-is-the-x-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-rocket.me\/blog\/how-fast-is-the-x-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fast Is The X WordPress Theme?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second post in a series where we test the most popular WordPress themes and try to get the best possible speed by using WP Rocket. After receiving a lot of suggestions, we have decided to test the X Theme<\/a> from Themeco this time.<\/p>

X <\/strong> is one of the most popular multi-purpose WordPress themes, with over 70,000 sales on ThemeForest.<\/p>

Preparing for the Test<\/h2>

This time, I decided to use same server I used for the Avada test<\/a>. The live test site can be found here<\/a>. I have installed one of X-Theme’s pre-defined templates – Agency<\/a>. According to our guidelines on how to correctly measure a website’s page load time<\/a>, I have been using Pingdom Tools as the most relevant tool for these kinds of tests.<\/p>

Many people use cheap and mediocre-quality hosting solutions, which is one of reasons why I decided to use mid-level hosting. Although it works well, there are much better solutions out there. I wanted to see what results we could get on an average set-up, like many of our customers use.<\/p>

Speed Test Results<\/h2>

Since loading time is a factor in SEO and conversions, that’s what we focus on with WP Rocket. Our main goal is to make websites faster. Here are the results we get with X-Theme:<\/p>

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Speed Test Result – No WP Rocket Installed<\/h3>
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With an average speed around 800ms<\/strong>, this is already a great result. So, I dare say that X-Theme is a very well optimized theme by default. The good news here is that we can boost this even more by using WP Rocket.<\/p>

Our goal here was not to use the best servers\/hosting solutions, but to experiment with, as mentioned, a mid-level quality platform. Server quality can affect the speed of your site, dramatically sometimes. In this post, we’ll see what we can do to improve the speed, even on an average server.<\/p>

X-Theme by default has between 19 and 72 HTTP requests per page, which is great, and the average page size is good too, varying from 350kb to 1.44MB.<\/p>

Speed Test Result – WP Rocket Installed<\/h3>
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After installing WP Rocket, we get even better loading times<\/a>. The average loading time is around 450ms<\/b>. Much better, even perfect, especially on an average hosting plan.<\/p>

We  used the following options in WP Rocket:<\/p>