I noticed an immediate performance gain after upgrading from version 1.12 to 1.23 (note: you have to open and close the Style section to activate the new option): This is a feature that I have not seen in other template frameworks, and sofar it forced me to configure this myself using cumbersome procedures. Often, Google fonts can slow down sites and this is now solved. Locally stored Google fontsĪ terrific new feature is that the fonts from the Google fonts fontpicker are now converted into locally stored fonts instead of being pulled from the Google servers. These settings can be used if you like them, or switched off if not. Other browsers use the fall-back mechanism Next-gen images offers WebP format images in supported browsers.Lazy-loading saves bandwith, because images are only loaded when they are scrolled into the viewport.The Compression setting combines the various individual CSS and JS files into bundled ones and this saves you many HTTP-requests.When you check the advanced settings in Yootheme Pro in your installations, you immediately see a few performance related ones: So, time for a review about these additions: Performance in Yootheme Pro A lot of the topics I described in the perfomance section of my blog are now included, and more as well. The latest releases have focussed heavily on performance. Many of these items are anxiously awaited by many (including myself). New features are added to the framework on a regular basis too, though there is also still a large backlog of things to do. All of this is built in a visual Builder with a split-screen, making it very easy for both experienced users and beginners to maintain content:
Personally, I usually like the clean designs they offer, but that is a matter of taste. many design-elements are built in, so you don't need extensions for many content-items like sliders, block-layouts, video's etcetera. Most importantly though, the framework offers a lot of freedom to build your own designs. The Pro collection now offers a dozen or so templates and every one or two months a new design is added. I personally use it for most of my projects now and though there are many things I absolutely love, there are a few things I wouldn't mind seeing changed.įor those who do not know the framework, Yootheme is a template provider offering templates on a regular basis. For quite some time I have been thinking about writing a review about Yootheme Pro.
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