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Originally Posted by PhilJ
It's a feature-rich template, the demo has all features enabled... just how many of those features you wish to use is entirely up to you.
Much of the load comes from images, of which there are many on the homepage.
As mentioned, Jack managed to get his homepage to ~20 requests / under 350k (!), simply by adding Max CDN and disabling some features.
Every store owner should take steps to optimise their site wherever possible. Here's an insightful video I found. |
As Phil says, I've done quite well with the speed of my site! Setting MaxCDN up was probably the best thing I've done, and I highly recommend it!
Heres a recent SS of my site speed:
Tested from Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 15th. - Note i'm in the UK so it might even be slightly quicker if it was tested in London, I've only recently had this setup in the last 24-48 hours.
Granted my homepage hasn't got many modules enabled or an image slider running as of yet, but I've went from 8 seconds to 1.6-2 secs on average. It's very impressive what you can do if you don't bloat your site with rubbish. Phils demo has every feature and module enabled, so it will indeed be bloated, he is also with 1&1 (not saying it's a bad host but personally prefer Handsonwebhosting/EWD as they know x-cart very well)
As long as my site loads under 3-4 seconds I'm happy. I also tested my site with a module that shows Detailed images when you hover over a product image and the site pages were around 1.2MB and even then I could get that to load in around 2 seconds.
I'm sure I could do a lot more too, but I'm happy with the speed, it's awesome!