I have a website running on the Kalium theme and I love the theme. However I ran a Google speed test cause it was a bit slow and I got a list of issues as you can see if you click on this link
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.
When the update it's ready you will receive an email if you have enabled "Get notified by email if this item is updated" from your Downloads tab.
P.S: If you like our theme, it would help us a lot if you could give us five star rating on themeforest from your Downloads tab, (if you don't know how, just open this link).
A huge thank you from Laborator in advance and have a great day!
I can't open your website with the credentials you provided.
Anyway, to update the plugins to the latest version that we support, just go to Appearance > Install Plugins and update them.
If you use LayerSlider plugin but can't update it, please just go to Plugins and deactivate this plugin. Then go to Appearance > Install Plugins again, you now can update and activate this plugin again.
I have a website running on the Kalium theme and I love the theme. However I ran a Google speed test cause it was a bit slow and I got a list of issues as you can see if you click on this link
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.kaliumtheme.com%2Farchitecture%2F
Is there any chance we can expect an update on the theme?
Thanks - Gert
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.
When the update it's ready you will receive an email if you have enabled "Get notified by email if this item is updated" from your Downloads tab.
Thanks for all the info. Updating the theme definitely helped and the other tips gave some further improvements.
Hi Gert,
I'm glad to hear that
P.S: If you like our theme, it would help us a lot if you could give us five star rating on themeforest from your Downloads tab, (if you don't know how, just open this link).
A huge thank you from Laborator in advance and have a great day!
Hi Gert,
I can't open your website with the credentials you provided.
Anyway, to update the plugins to the latest version that we support, just go to Appearance > Install Plugins and update them.
If you use LayerSlider plugin but can't update it, please just go to Plugins and deactivate this plugin. Then go to Appearance > Install Plugins again, you now can update and activate this plugin again.