Falco Multi-Purpose WP Theme – PageSpeed Score 90:78
Theme Created: 2013-10-29 Full Theme Description DEMO
Falco is a powerful WordPress Theme with fresh and clean design. With custom drag’n drop Muffin Builder everything can be done without any php/css/html knowledge: each section of the page can have different options like paddings, backgrounds (colors, patterns, images, parallax), sidebars, layout, classes and inside each section can be inserted any element (muffin builder items, shortcodes, html tags, iframes, etc…). The theme includes modern timeline blog style and unusual fullscreen portfolio layout.


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W3C Validator
Validator performs the markup validation of HTML and XHTML documents and allows to evaluate the technical quality of web page code. It is important for browser compatibility and site usability.
Result of Home Page validation:
This page was successfully checked - 0 errors
Performance evaluation via PageSpeed Insights on Desktop and Mobile Device
Analysis was done for the Home Page of theme demo.
PageSpeed Insights fetches a site with a webkit renderer that emulates both mobile and desktop devices and takes into account characteristics of mobile networks.
The results returned by the PageSpeed Insights API includes the following information: PageSpeed score, summary statistics for the page and PageSpeed results for rules based on general principles of web page performance.
1. PageSpeed score
The PageSpeed Score (0-100) indicates how much faster a page could be. A high score indicates little room for improvement, while a low score indicates more room for improvement. From the point of theme evaluating this characteristic shows how in the theme had taken into account the data processing, minification and optimal loading.
Desktop PageSpeed Score
Mobile PageSpeed Score
2. Page Statistic - Breakdown of page resources size

Number and total size of all requests
Desktop | Mobile | |
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Total size of all requests (considering the compression of HTML, text, CSS and JS resources) | 2356 KB | 3069 KB |
Number of requests | 123 | 124 |
As we can see from graph and summary table:
- The amount of downloaded data for mobile device increased by 712 KB which means loading not only theme data common for the desktop and mobile devices but also data specific to the mobile device.
- The page is too heavy - especially for mobile devices: mobile users may just close the site before the end of its loading.
- The number of requests for desktop and mobile devices is virtually identical.
3. PageSpeed results
PageSpeed analyzes web pages using rules based on main principles of web page performance and generates result for each rule. Following table shows results of the evaluation and recommendations for rules, which performance depends on the quality of the theme source code.
Rule | Desktop | Mobile |
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Avoid landing page redirects Theme has no redirects. |
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Reduce server response time Server responded quickly. There are dozens of potential factors which may slow down the response of server: slow application logic, slow database queries, slow routing, frameworks, libraries, resource CPU starvation, or memory starvation. |
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Minify CSS Theme's CSS is minified. |
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Minify HTML Compacting HTML code, including any inline JavaScript and CSS contained in it, can save many bytes of data and speed up download and parse times. |
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Minify JavaScript Compacting JavaScript code can save many bytes of data and speed up downloading, parsing, and execution time. |
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Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content Theme has 4 blocking script resources and 5 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering Theme. |
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Optimize images Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data. |
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Prioritize visible content You have the above-the-fold content properly prioritized. |
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