Performance Improvements

@blindpet – I am very interested in what their reply to your other observations will be but for the font inheritance matter, this should do it:

Dashboard > Elementor > Settings > Disable Color Palettes and Disable Default Fonts > tick these two and Save Changes ?? IMHO, these should be ticked by default.

Cheers!
Lyle

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Learn WP Basics.

Thanks @learnwpbasics I look forward to their reply to them as well, will test out your proposed fix and report back

Thanks for that @learnwpbasics , it did reduce the number of font requests, however it is still asking for Raleway twice and Roboto once even though the theme already loads them.

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/bZxoOz/https://wp-bullet.com/

Hi @blindpet,

1. If you disable default fonts (as mentioned above by @learnwpbasics) the fonts will not load at all, unless you specify a font inside one of the elements.
We don’t have any way to know what comes from your theme itself, so as long as you don’t choose a font in Elementor you will not get any font at all.

2. For now, we are loading Youtube API all the time, but it shouldn’t affect upload time, cause it’s being loaded after the page is already fully loaded (after the document is ready).
However, we are working to improve this, so in future it will appear only when needed.

3. This file: https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-widgetapi-vflQ-R4Us/www-widgetapi.js comes from Youtube API.

4. We are loading Font Awesome’s version because this file is updating from time to time.
For example, only yesterday we released an update for 4.7 vesrion of the project, so it’s required for new visitors.

Thank you very much for your feedback.
One of our main concerns is to improve Elementor’s perfomance and in time we will offer much more features.

Hi @blindpet,

1. It seems like you set this font inside one of the elements and this is why you still get a request for it.
2 & 3. You are right and we are working to improve this feature.
4. Thanks for this suggestion, we will consider it for future versions.
5. We didn’t encountered issues with this plugin, can you give us more details?

Hi @boaz

1. I have been through all the elements, they are all set to default. Maybe there is something I am missing or perhaps I have stumbled upon a bug.

2 & 3 – glad to hear it

4 – thank you, this will be pretty important

5. The experience I got was pretty much what I outlined, when Autoptimize is activated and minifying html, css and JS, Elementor fails to load sometimes and will freeze on Saving.

Hi @blindpet,
1. Can you send us a URL to a page with this issue?
It could be also related with caching.

5. Please check this discussion
(specifically futtta’s comments):

And also check their FAQ.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Boaz.

Hi @boaz

The URL where you can see it is WP Bullet. I control the server completely and Varnish cache has been restarted so the entire cache has been emptied multiple times.

5. Thanks for this, will Elementor have this snippet or similar activated with a checkbox in the future? It would be nice to be able to test minified files while logged in without having to disable Autoptimize entirely while logged in so Elementor works ??

add_filter('autoptimize_filter_noptimize','pagebuilder_noptimize',10,0);
function pagebuilder_noptimize() {
  if (is_user_logged_in()) {
    return true;
  } else {
    return false;
  }
}

Hi @blindpet,

1. It seems like this font comes from the theme or a different plugin.
In anycase not from Elementor.

2. We think that it should be built-in inside the caching plugin, but it’s an interesting idea and we will consider it for future versions.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Boaz.

Hi @boaz

1. Are you sure? Before I did what Lyle suggested I had these requests, all from Elementor

View post on imgur.com

After I set everything to default, I still get requests that look just like those but fewer, the ones from the theme are at the top and do not have these random hashes so they seem to be from Elementor.

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/KtFIx/https://wp-bullet.com/

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/KtFIx/https://wp-bullet.com/

2. I think Frank from Autoptimize added that function so page builders could implement it, I will check with him and get back to you

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by blindpet. Reason: added imgur links to zoom

regarding autoptimize compatibility; the non-code alternative is telling users to use the code present is AO’s FAQ (and which blindpet referred to), but ideally on elementor-side you hook into autoptimize_filter_noptimize automatically, conditional to the user being logged on and that elementor is active (i.e. e.g. not for “authors” as they might not have rights to use elementor for example)?

frank

Thanks @futtta for the idea. We definitely going to check it soon.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by ArielK.

you’re welcome!

fyi; there’s autoptimize_filter_js_noptimize as well, which can by used to only disable JS optimization as well.

let me know if you need assistance from me at any stage!

It works pretty good for us ??
https://github.com/pojome/elementor/commit/3ff3f8770e02f0bb46f948920715233e14619c1b

Thank you both @futtta and @arielk-1