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Wonderful job guys!
Keith – very nice. Has a nice corporate feel to it.
Athy – The integration with Amazon customer reviews is a great addition.
Dave – Simply beautiful! Stylish, elegant, modern, very engaging and good blend of photography and color scheme. Very well done.
Charlie – Nice work, my friend.
RJ – That’s an interesting idea to get people interested in books – the layout looks great as well.
An Idea of what I’ve done with X. http://democratify.com/forward-for-capitalism/
Great work Matthew – some very confronting undeniable stats. Experiencing much the same here in Australia unfortunately..:(
My first go with X.
After much testing and feedback for the developers along the way, we have version 1 of our website up and running on our domain http://www.a2bdesigners.com plenty of learning curves but i think we can do more.
Interesting designs coming along with this very flexible theme, just never been keen on Visual Composer but hey ho, fantastic framework.
Regards
AdamMatthew – Like the full width blog post as referenced above. Also, great job on the over all feel of the site.
Richard – LOVE the compelling background images with the transparent navigation. That is a very nice touch and really sets the site apart.
Adam – Looking sharp! We are also working on some alternatives to VC for users. We will be sure to let everyone know when there is more information on that front.
Nice site! I looked at some of the pages and ran YSlow on them –
Grade F on Make fewer HTTP requests
This page has 30 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
This page has 11 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.30 scripts and 11 external stylesheets? Wow. This should be looked at. That is crazy.
Jeff B that appears to be almost standard across most of the sites posted on this thread.
Hi Jeff B and also Admin,
I have used the Xtheme for development and have not only found it really beneficial to use, but also some great coding work has gone into it.
I have further optimised our website http://www.a2bdesigners.com for speed, we use a combination of a few things
1. A modified WordPress .htaccess file
2. Use WP-Super Cache plugin, optimal settings all round
3. Also we compress HTML Output using WP Plugin WP-HTML-Compression (turn this off when using the customizer then turn back on)
4. We use EWWW Image Optimizer Plugin to optimize all images even theme images.
5. We host with site5, but also use Cloudflare CDN (free),Turn off rocket loader on cloudflare as site does load quicker, dont use Cloudflare compression as you use it in WP Super cache above (2).The Result below, hope this helps others like you.
Regards
AdamRichard S
I’ve been watching the speed issue because that’s often an issue with Themes and can impact SEO. I’ve been running madskydesign.com off X for several weeks and have a YSlow of a B(81%) and Page Speed A(96%) using GTmetrix. I probably could still do more in the way of optimizing photos but time is always an issue. Wonder if some of the speed issue is server related or new users not optimizing art and such. I’m hosted with WP Engine.
I did have a slider running on the site and it wasn’t impacting speed either. Took it down just because several sites in my portfolio have sliders and I wanted something different:)
I’m likely taking this site back to another Framework as I already had the site built and I’m short on time to bring this site to completion. Plus then I’ll have an X-theme license open for a new project.
I just ran some tests and the first result was: Your website is faster than 83% of all tested websites. Sounds pretty solid to me. Probably some bad routing for you that’s why it’s slower if you browse it on your own?
@Support
Which user were your talking to about “faster than 83%”?
Hey Jason,
I just tried Adams as reference to see what’s possible. Look like he did a great job optimizing X.
Thanks for the comments support, it goes without saying as regards to optimisation there is always trial and error, broken area’s, javascripts, plugins etc.
To give you an idea we played around with settings for 2 days to find the sweet spot. Not just optimisation settings, but also cloudflare and htaccess file optimisation to get a page loading speed on average in the UK to 1.52 seconds as tested this morning.
Any members on here can freely get in touch for advice on optimisation for there sites, and we will give free advice.
Regards
AdamThanks for the offer to help – I am just wondering why 30 scripts and 10 or more style sheets are being called. Isn’t there a way to limit the http requests in the code by checking to see what is actually being used be the page? Can the scripts be loaded from the bottom of the page or will that break it? There is just a lot of calls in the head for a standard website.
