Dear Xtemos,
Thanks for an amazing theme. We’re used to last couple of months, developing our site, using your theme, but we’re stumbling into some issues, with the loading speed, particular on the product category pages.
The ”issue” i’m about to explain, should in theori not be isolated to the product category pages, but in generel, but i’m going to show some transaction traces, using the New Relic APM tool we have installed on our server enviroment.
Just to clarify our base setup / configuration:
– Hosting WPengine
– Premium 1,5 dedicated Server enviroment (+800 USD a month)
– We’re expericing loading times on average at 7+ seconds.
– We believe this is due to some heavy loading in the header.
So the attached picture view, gives you the overview of the latest 6 hours of 22/02-19, where we’ve picked the most dissastifying APDEX score and isloated it into the loading of a product categories. From here on, we’ve select to trace a specefic trace, that was loading one of the main categories, called ”havemoebler”. (Please see the link in private content)
From this specific trace (see picture 2) – You’ll see, that the instance took 10,500 ms. Looking further into the transaction using trace details, we see, that the get_header instance, takes about 7 seconds everytime and we therefor wondering, if we perhaps have made to big of a header on the site?
I’ve included login details of new relic in the private content area and a direct link to the trace as well after you’re logged in.
Looking at the image called picture 3, you’ll quickly get an idea of the GET_Header loading speed.
We’re looking to optimize the speed of the website and know, that changing all of the product pictures on the website to same ratio will help, but we can’t be wondering, if we in any way can minimize the loading speed of the header in anyway or have we just complicated the header to much?
The instance of all of this, is based of the theme being on version 3.4.0. By the end of the night, we’ll update the theme to your latest version, which is 3.5.1. We just wanted to know, if you could provide us with any guidance on this subject.
Thanks in advance!
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