Discussion on uDesign - Responsive WordPress Theme

Hi jahrichie, thanks for the feedback, glad you like the theme!!

Regards

Hi,

thanks for your interest in the theme!!

Yeah, I’m sure there’s room for improvement, but keep in mind that this is a demo site and I have not aimed to optimize it to please any site speed checker like the one you refer above.

You’re right that you can use some caching plugins that will allow you to gzip your site, also minify scripts and css, etc. When you have a theme with so many features and functionality like mine does it could be challenging to meet all criteria in some cases, so you compromise. If really want to score A on these tests them you might be better off building your site NOT with WordPress but XHTML and simple.

For example not all images can be used in css sprites, in some cases it just cannot be done, and this is a problem with these automated testers they don’t show enough intelligence to know the difference in some cases.

You can still go far in terms of optimizing your site, get a good host, a good caching plugin, use CDN, etc, it’s all about how much effort you’d like to put into it.

Regards

Thanks for the reply.

I’m aware the demo site isn’t optimized, that is why I limited my question to theme related issues only.

I can see your point regarding css sprites, but especially the following two issues should be applied to any theme IMHO:

• optimizing Javascript loading, especially only load JS files when needed (e.g. don’t load slider JS files on a normal page without slider)
• specifying image dimensions

I could fix that by myself, but once you release an update I would have to apply all that changes again.

Keep up the good work!

PS: I just noticed I bought the 7-in-1 business success theme from you long time ago

You have a good point about not loading JS slider scripts on pages not showing the slider, this is actually super easy to fix and I’ll make sure I include it for the next theme update.

Cheers

Great news, thanks! Just bought the theme

Thanks for the purchase!

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