A site can get to be slow for many reasons, from server and domain setup, to bad plugins or themes, image sizes, etc. From the theme's perspective, we've been able to achieve great results with Kalium so the theme should help you in your mission of optimizing your site for faster performance.
After valuable user feedback, extensive research and testing, we spotted several opportunities to make Kalium faster and more efficient. The goal was to keep the theme and its code as clean and fast as possible while packing the same awesome features people love without slowing things down. By minifying JavaScript and CSS code, we managed to improve performance and speed up page loading, making both visitors and search engines happy.
We use the following plugins to get the best of Kalium in terms of performance and loading times.
Beside Server Caching, Minifying and HTML compression, we've also made sure the Browser Caching is enabled for the site by adding the following lines in the .htaccess file.
# Leverage Browser Caching by setting HTTP header expires
<ifmodule mod_expires.c=""><IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 30 days"
</ifmodule></IfModule>
Hope you'll be able to use this info to speed up your site too. Remember that each setup is different and it depend on your content, the plugins you're using, the server that hosts your site and basically all that's involved with it.
If you're looking for professional help in this matter, there's always someone available for such tasks on the Envato Studio. Pricing and timeline are always straightforward there and that's the main reason for recommending it.
P.S:
You are using an old version of our theme (1.9.4.1) and the latest version for the moment is (1.9.5), please update your theme first and then the premium plugins too.
If you are using Envato Market plugin to update your theme, just follow this little procedure http://drops.laborator.co/pLFH
Important: After you update the theme please don't forget to go to Appearance > Install Plugins to update all your premium plugins to the latest version that we support.
If you can't update LayerSlider, go to Plugins and deactivate this plugin. Then go to Appearance > Install Plugins, you now can update and then activate Layer Slider again.
thanks for your replay. I made all the updates. After activating the Caching, Minifying and HTML compression the WP.Slider do not show up anymore. Can you please help me in the https://gtmetrix.com/reports/lacroix-architekten.de/0vTLrCNZ feedback.
The following resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs. Serve these resources from a consistent URL to save 1 request(s) and 104.6KiB.
The following resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs. Serve these resources from a consistent URL to save 1 request(s) and 55.1KiB.
I'm sorry but i can't help you on this question, those websites are made for the simple plain sites and not Wordpress ones.
A lot of warnings are coming from the plugins such a Revolution Slider Layer Sliders and others and you can't do anything about it. The only way to remove that is to not use those plugins at all. But i don't know if it is worth it if you want to use sliders.
Premium plugins don’t allow us to give customers our license number, so on each premium plugin such as Visual Composer, Revolution Slider and Layer Slider update we release a new update to our theme with the latest version of that plugin included, and customers don’t need to worry about that.
We have released Kalium 1.9.5.1 and when you update the theme you can update Layer Slider by going to Plugins and deactivate this plugin. Then go to Appearance > Install Plugins, you now can update and then activate this plugin again.
Hi Kalium-Team,
The performance of my new side is very poor. Can you please help me?
My domain and server provider gave me the attached feedback to optimize the side:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/lacroix-architekten.de/0vTLrCNZ
There are some duplicate links, etc. .....?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Nicole La Croix and Steffen Wagner
Hi Nicole,
A site can get to be slow for many reasons, from server and domain setup, to bad plugins or themes, image sizes, etc. From the theme's perspective, we've been able to achieve great results with Kalium so the theme should help you in your mission of optimizing your site for faster performance.
After valuable user feedback, extensive research and testing, we spotted several opportunities to make Kalium faster and more efficient. The goal was to keep the theme and its code as clean and fast as possible while packing the same awesome features people love without slowing things down. By minifying JavaScript and CSS code, we managed to improve performance and speed up page loading, making both visitors and search engines happy.
We use the following plugins to get the best of Kalium in terms of performance and loading times.
Beside Server Caching, Minifying and HTML compression, we've also made sure the Browser Caching is enabled for the site by adding the following lines in the .htaccess file.
Hope you'll be able to use this info to speed up your site too. Remember that each setup is different and it depend on your content, the plugins you're using, the server that hosts your site and basically all that's involved with it.
If you're looking for professional help in this matter, there's always someone available for such tasks on the Envato Studio. Pricing and timeline are always straightforward there and that's the main reason for recommending it.
P.S:
You are using an old version of our theme (1.9.4.1) and the latest version for the moment is (1.9.5), please update your theme first and then the premium plugins too.
If you are using Envato Market plugin to update your theme, just follow this little procedure http://drops.laborator.co/pLFH
Important: After you update the theme please don't forget to go to Appearance > Install Plugins to update all your premium plugins to the latest version that we support.
If you can't update LayerSlider, go to Plugins and deactivate this plugin. Then go to Appearance > Install Plugins, you now can update and then activate Layer Slider again.
Hi Ylli,
thanks for your replay. I made all the updates. After activating the Caching, Minifying and HTML compression the WP.Slider do not show up anymore. Can you please help me in the https://gtmetrix.com/reports/lacroix-architekten.de/0vTLrCNZ feedback.
The check says "Serve resources from a consistent URL". Can you help me here?
The following resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs. Serve these resources from a consistent URL to save 1 request(s) and 104.6KiB.
The following resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs. Serve these resources from a consistent URL to save 1 request(s) and 55.1KiB.
Best regards
Nicole La Croix and Steffen Wagner
Hi Nicole,
I'm sorry but i can't help you on this question, those websites are made for the simple plain sites and not Wordpress ones.
A lot of warnings are coming from the plugins such a Revolution Slider Layer Sliders and others and you can't do anything about it. The only way to remove that is to not use those plugins at all. But i don't know if it is worth it if you want to use sliders.
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Hallo Ylli,
GZIP compression is now activated server site. Performance is now good.
I have currently the issue with updating the plugin: LayerSlider WP to version 6.0.3.
It says "Update package not available"?
Best regards
Nicole La Croix and Steffen Wagner
Hi Nicole,
I'm very glad to hear that
Premium plugins don’t allow us to give customers our license number, so on each premium plugin such as Visual Composer, Revolution Slider and Layer Slider update we release a new update to our theme with the latest version of that plugin included, and customers don’t need to worry about that.
We have released Kalium 1.9.5.1 and when you update the theme you can update Layer Slider by going to Plugins and deactivate this plugin. Then go to Appearance > Install Plugins, you now can update and then activate this plugin again.
Hallo Ylli,
Thanks it works !
Kind regards
Nicole La Croix and Steffen Wagner