Avada is the best-selling WordPress theme in the Themeforest marketplace. At the time of writing, it has been purchased nearly 800,000 times, which is a very impressive number. There is no free version of this theme, it must be purchased. Avada offers its users lots of features, but it does NOT have a reputation of being lightweight or fast-loading. Apparently, there is a big market for such themes and many sellers on Themeforest try to copy Avada's success. Below are Avada's results in our performance tests.
Speed Test Environment
Page Caching
no
Compression
gzip
Varnish Active
no
DNS
Cloudflare
Test Period
Feb 1, 2022 - Feb 9, 2022
Test Type
Blank Page
WebPageTest.org Tests
Testing Platform: webpagetest.org
Testing Server Location: Frankfurt, Germany - EC2
Browser: Chrome
Connection: Native (No Traffic Shaping)
Resolution: default (1366 x 768)
GT Metrix Tests
Testing Platform: gtmetrix.com
Testing Server Location: London
Device: desktop
Browser: Chrome 90.0.4430.212
Lighthouse Version: 8.3.0
Lighthouse Tests (Command Line Interface)
Lighthouse Version: 9.2.0
Network User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4695.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 Chrome-Lighthouse
Host User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36
Test | Server Response | FCP | Speed Index | LCP | Blocking Time | CLS | Max. FID | Time to Interactive | Javascript Execution | Total Byte Weight | DOM Size | Requests | Tasks |
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1 | 0.323 s | 0.613 s | 0.665 s | 0.614 s | 0.002 s | 0.07475 | 0.052 s | 0.675 s | 0.180 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 437 |
2 | 0.146 s | 0.518 s | 0.578 s | 0.519 s | 0 s | 0.04787 | 0.018 s | 0.518 s | 0.210 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 427 |
3 | 0.147 s | 0.447 s | 0.514 s | 0.447 s | 0 s | 0.04787 | 0.048 s | 0.488 s | 0.176 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 429 |
4 | 0.138 s | 0.468 s | 0.531 s | 0.469 s | 0 s | 0.04787 | 0.016 s | 0.468 s | 0.195 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 429 |
5 | 0.194 s | 0.520 s | 0.557 s | 0.521 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.061 s | 0.569 s | 0.179 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 435 |
6 | 0.284 s | 0.577 s | 0.653 s | 0.578 s | 0 s | 0.04787 | 0.055 s | 0.618 s | 0.171 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 428 |
7 | 0.155 s | 0.452 s | 0.567 s | 0.453 s | 0 s | 0.40029 | 0.053 s | 0.499 s | 0.206 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 815 |
8 | 0.126 s | 0.431 s | 0.496 s | 0.431 s | 0 s | 0.04787 | 0.065 s | 0.470 s | 0.172 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 428 |
9 | 0.367 s | 0.780 s | 0.816 s | 0.781 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.049 s | 0.840 s | 0.180 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 436 |
10 | 0.141 s | 0.436 s | 0.501 s | 0.437 s | 0 s | 0.04787 | 0.050 s | 0.476 s | 0.172 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 428 |
11 | 0.131 s | 0.427 s | 0.471 s | 0.427 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.047 s | 0.482 s | 0.178 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 438 |
12 | 0.319 s | 0.599 s | 0.650 s | 0.600 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.046 s | 0.653 s | 0.165 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 434 |
13 | 0.288 s | 0.686 s | 0.719 s | 0.687 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.055 s | 0.740 s | 0.173 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 435 |
14 | 0.523 s | 0.927 s | 0.959 s | 0.928 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.051 s | 0.980 s | 0.164 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 438 |
15 | 0.192 s | 0.510 s | 0.544 s | 0.510 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.047 s | 0.559 s | 0.173 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 433 |
Median Values | 0.192 s | 0.518 s | 0.567 s | 0.519 s | 0 s | 0.07475 | 0.050 s | 0.559 s | 0.176 s | 472,121 | 217 | 14 | 434 |
Average Values | 0.232 s | 0.560 s | 0.615 s | 0.560 s | 0.000 s | 0.08570 | 0.048 s | 0.602 s | 0.180 s | 472,121 | 217.0 | 14 | 458.0 |