There are a lot of great looking templates out there that also have awesome functionality. However, using some of the tools measuring web site performance, such as
http://www.webpagetest.org/ , the demo sites of these templates appear to be slow and not optimized from performance perspective.
So, my question to those of you who have purchased commercial templates, is how optimized for speed the templates are? Do I need to budget additional time and investments to bring the templates up to speed, no pun intended, or they are good enough to be used on production sites right our of the box?
Thanks
P.S. This is a good read on the topic of performance
http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/02/28/4-awesome-slides-showing-how-page-speed-correlates-to-busine...t-walmart-com/