Hey @cvdw,
We’re very sorry if you were expecting us to investigate your website speed issue. We cannot do that as website speed optimization is beyond the scope of our product support as it involves 3rd party plugins and other factors such as web host performance.
Also, if Cornerstone is slow, it would affect thousands of sites running it including my sites. None of them are slow even some are hosted in a shared web host. My sites are graded A in Gtmetrix. Cornerstone JS is not causing any delay. That is because I’ve optimized them properly using the best practices and some 3rd party optimization plugins. I cannot give my setup to you though as that is beyond the scope of support and overall WP configuration varies from site to site. Since website optimization often needs hands-on support, if you want us to optimize your site, check our Elite service here https://theme.co/elite.
With that said, the only thing I can provide you are a few pointers you test.
- Deactivate all the 3rd party plugins including your caching plugin and also deactivate the child theme and see the Gtmetrix result. Log this down on a note.
- Still with the child theme and all plugins deactivated, copy your site to another web host and see the Gtmetrix result. There are free web hosts you can use. Just look them up online.
- Compare the result from one server to the other. If the result is the same, we’ll post this case in our issue tracker to be queued for investigation by our development team.
Thank you for understanding.
