Astra Theme GTmetrix Speed Test After HTML/CSS/JS Minification

Astra Theme GTmetrix Speed Test After HTML/CSS/JS Minification

I used the Fast Velocity Minify Plugin to combine CSS files and minify HTML, CSS and JS code to reduce the Stallion Responsive Theme and the Astra Theme basic output to a bare minimum for comparative speed testing in GTmetrix.

You can see from this GTmetrix speed test the Stallion Responsive Theme has a smaller frontend footprint vs the Astra Theme.

Astra Theme GTmetrix Speed Results

  • PageSpeed Grade A (100%)
  • YSlow Grade A (98%)
  • Fully Loaded time 0.7s
  • Total page size 29.2KB
  • Total # of requests 4

Those are very good pagespeed results for the Astra theme.

Stallion Responsive Theme GTmetrix Speed Results

  • PageSpeed Grade A (100%)
  • YSlow Grade A (98%)
  • Fully Loaded time 0.6s
  • Total page size 16.5KB
  • Total # of requests 4

Stallion Responsive is better, a little faster (144ms faster) and a little smaller (12.8KB smaller).

The difference between Astra and Stallion Responsive is minor.

To put things into perspective adding a small image to the content and it’s going to be FAR bigger than 12.8KB and 144ms is a tiny. The majority of the size difference between the two themes is the size of CSS files, the Astra theme has a LOT more CSS rules vs the Stallion Responsive theme.

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