Anyone suggestions for a fast and clean wordpress theme?

 

When googling around I always get themes with pagebuilders in them and my experience is that they impact the sitespeed a lot.

 

I want to make a fast loading website. with simple / minimalistic design ... yet looks professional :-)

 

thanks a lot

Lieven

What's the effect of wordpress itself on loading speed? I honestly don't know but I have heard it said that if speed is you priority you might be better to use good old html files or a flat file CMS.

The only 3rd party Wordpress themes I've ever analysed were all bloated and slow, by its very nature as soon as you add plugins to Wordpress you start adding bloat.

 

I agree with TimW, if you want speed and clean you're better off with a "clean slate" CMS so you can build with speed in mind, or use regular .html files.

That's right...

but...

unfortunately, it' has to become a wordpress website :-)

Curious - why does it have to be?

GeneratePress

The one I built: https://onepage.aerin.co.uk/

 

Everything you see is part of the theme, no need for any plugins.