With WordPress growing in leaps and bounds, many aspiring website owners are looking to create their sites using this amazing content management system. In this regard, it is crucial that you build websites that will take the shortest amount of time to load. In the list of the most annoying things for an internet user, a slow website is top on the list.

Studies have indicated that as every second elapses or increases while your site loads, so does the number of visitors that press the back button. In this day and age of serious improvements in the technology sector, many website visitors do not expect that a website will take more than two seconds to load. So, as you can see, you only need two seconds to conclude that a website is either slow or fast.

Having a website that loads fast has numerous benefits. While ranking your website in search engine results, Google uses site speed as one of its factors. So, the faster your website loads, the higher you will be placed in search engine results. As a result, you will be able to get more organic traffic. This means that visitors will stick around for your content resulting in higher conversion rates.

In this article, we will be taking a look at some of the fastest WordPress themes available in the market.

 

Avada

Avada is one of fastest WordPress themes in the market. Its simple design coupled with a myriad of exciting features are some of the factors that have led to its success.

Now on its fourth version, Avada promises to offer more features than before. Avada comes with demos that you can view and if you are pleased with one of them, then, you can import it with a few simple steps that will have your website online as fast as possible.

Another feature that makes this theme a top seller is its purpose built builder tool that allows you create your own customized pages. With such a functionality, Avada makes itself flexible in order to accommodate various website projects.

So now we come to the most important part. Just how fast is Avada?

Pingdom was used to perform the test and this were the results.

  • Performance grade: 88 B
  • Load time: 1.14s
  • Page size: 16.0 MB
  • Faster than 87% of tested sites.

 

The Core

The core is one of many massively multipurpose themes as well as the fastest in the market. It boasts of at least 17 website demos pre-built into the theme. This ensures that you are not limited to the type of website you want to create. In other words, you are as free as the wind to start any project knowing that The Core can handle anything you throw at it.

The Core comes with a builder feature that enables you to drag and drop in order to construct your website.

From the site’s appearance to the functionality and style, nothing cannot be customized in The Core. It also comes with a backup feature that enables you to create your website’s offline backup.

So how fast is The Core? According to Pingdom, these are the results

  • Performance grade: 69 D
  • Load time: 3.99s
  • Page size: 4.2 MB
  • Faster than 41% of tested sites.

 

Bridge

Bridge is a bold and beautiful theme geared towards a straightforward type of website. Something professional and way ahead of time, but, still delivers the content. With over 200 demos to choose from, you can be guaranteed that Bridge has a design for whatever type of project you have in mind. However, if you feel that nothing cuts it for you, Bridge comes with a premium visual composer page builder plugin. With this plugin, you go ahead and design your unique website.

If you are looking to create a professional website then, Bridge is the ultimate solution for you.

These are the results of a test done on the site using Pingdom.

  • Performance grade: 88 B
  • Load time: 3.69s
  • Page size: 3.8 MB
  • Faster than 45% of tested sites

 

SEO WP

SEO is a big deal in today’s online activities, especially for website owners. If you are one of those social media marketers or search engine optimizers then, this is one theme you cannot afford not to have.

This theme provides for a professional look while maintaining fast load times. The theme is search engine optimized so you do not need to worry about your appearance on the internet. This theme enables you to create a website that fits your style. With multiple plugins that improve the functionality of your website, you are guaranteed that visitors on your website will have the best user experience.

SEO WP comes with real-time social media analytics that enable you to keep track of your clients’ social media activities. You will also be able to monitor trends in social media that will enable you to layout successful social media marketing strategy.

Results obtained from a test carried out by Pingdom reveal the following:

  • Performance grade: 91 A
  • Load time: 1.51s
  • Page size: 912.6 kB
  • Faster than 80% of tested sites

 
Newspaper

As the name suggests, this theme is majorly focused on the news industry. If your website is geared towards a magazine or news or a blog, then, Newspaper is exactly what you should be looking for.

Customization should not be an issue with Newspaper. With more demos to choose from than you could possibly imagine, this theme enables you to tweak up a few aspects of the demos. You can choose to change the skin color, appearance, site style and so much more.

Since news websites attract a lot of traffic, you can earn using Newspaper with an advertising block where advertisers can put up their content. You also manage this section easily using Newspaper.

Pingdom generated the following results after a test was done on the theme:

  • Performance grade: 94 A
  • Load time: 2.00s
  • Page size: 1.7 MB
  • Faster than 71% of tested sites

 

Conclusion

There are so many other fast WP themes out there. These are just but a few. It is worth noting that the type of content that you upload to your website will have a significant impact on the load time. However, choosing a fast WP theme is a step in the right direction.

There are so many factors that affect the load time of a website. In order to get the best performance, you need to explore more options such as using caching plugins. With these few pointers, I hope you will be able to make the right decision when it comes to website creation.

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