They have been sold up to 250,000 times on the ThemeForest marketplace…But how fast are those famous WordPress themes? Dareboost have been testing 8 of these best sellers themes by monitoring their demo pages for several months. Here are the results. Even if these WordPress themes are all sold around $60, they do not have the same value in matter of web performance: Through our tests, conducted from October 7th to December 7th, their average Speed Index goes from 2131ms to… 6130ms for the last theme of our ranking. 3 times slower than the first one!
Speed Index evolution for the 8 tested WordPress themes
Beware not to make snap judgments from this study: we have tested the demo version of these themes. Demos aim at showcasing all the features and, at the same time, to convince people to buy them! That may drive to a real escalation .
Still, the goal remain to convince people to buy a theme. And if we focus on the server response time (TTFB), convincing the customers does not sound like an easy matter: half of the tested themes show server response times over 1 second (where Google recommends less than 200ms). Betheme is doing pretty well with 187ms, followed by Enfold
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14034/which-is-the-fastest-theme-among-themeforest-best-sellers
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/which-is-the-fastest-theme-among-themeforest-best-sellers/
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