Template with PageSpeed considered

[sp65]

Hi,

I am a fairly new studiopress user.  My site is built on the Balance theme without too much customisation at the moment.  If I check the Google PageSpeed of the site I score 87/100, which is not bad but surely could be higher.

If I run the demo though the PageSpeed check  'http://demo.studiopress.com/balance/   then that scores 81/100.  A cache plugin would take it to the 87 my site scored.

CSS sprites are the Medium Priority problem highlighted, so I will look into those.

I guess my question is, with Page Speed maybe becoming a factor in the google algorithm can this be considered in the build of the themes ?

I mention my site,  it is called sixtyminutewebsite and was built after having too many conversations with friends who think because I work in IT I want to build their websites.  Its new and still being proof read.   StudioPress will be mentioned in there very soon.

 

Cheers.

[nickthegeek]

teh themes aren't using many sprites and other items that would improve the scores because that makes it much harder to customize. This is something that a user could work to improve their selves but a "b" is a good ranking for a theme that can be more easily customized rather than an "a" but cannot be edited without image software to change sprites and an impossible to read minified style sheet.

[sp65]

Thanks for the response.  Your are right, I've made a few changes and the speed increased naturally, it wasn't slow but is now very quick.

For anyone reading plugins,  w3 total cache and smush.it both seemed to have helped.

 

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