I hate slow websites, especially if it’s my WordPress website. In this article I’ll let you know how a fan boy of Astra theme, slowly changed towards Blocksy theme.
Being a designer, I love to have a custom design on my website. I’ve spent uncountable hours on my website customizing various pages, and tweaking CSS and designs with Elementor.
Even though I’m a heavy user of Elementor page builder plugin, I’m no that fond of the native Hello elementor theme, because of my previous interest towards the Astra theme and it’s Indepth customization options and compatibility with the elementor plugin.
But after using the Astra theme for 5+ years I started noticing that my site started getting slower and started loading very slow.
Along with the speed, I also needed quite a few inbuilt features in my website such as a good native header builder with cart functionality, blog articles read time display, logic based cart icon in the header, Elementor deep compatibility, Icons in the menus, Clean code, fully responsive, live preview, Locallizing google fonts etc.
So I made the switch! Now i’m using the premium version of the Blocksy theme with it’s license, And i’m not going back to astra theme.
the main reason being it’s fast loading time is it’s a block based theme and built with React components and loads faster even the page has complex integrations. Blocksy uses Babel, the latest javascript language which makes the website lightening fast.
After trying many PHP based themes, I found that doesn’t matter how hard you try to optimize the pages, they get slower in times, but Javascript based sites made with Next Js or React they are fast, and doesn’t get slower over time.
So I researched about Javascript based themes, and eventually found this Blocksy theme. There’re many block based themes, but Blocksy is different. It has many inbuilt featuers which make the work easier without the need of any external plugins.
And I love that extra space saving in my server!
The header builder options are unmatched with any theme now available with WordPress. It’s totally worth it!
It has inbuilt adobe typekit integration, so you just need to add your project API, and soon you can start using the Adobe or Google fonts locally without worry about fonts loading slower everytime.
I believe in open source so I’m using an open-source tool for hosting and sending newsletters. it’s Fluent CRM, and this theme has an integration with Fluent CRM and gives form with the existing crm subscribers listing so that it becomes easier to install on your website sections to get people subscribed to your existing database.
Their documentation is also very brief and detailed; you can find their guide and videos here.
This is not a sponsored article, try their free theme, if you like it, you can upgrade to the premium, and can give a shoutout in the comments below!
