I´m working (or try to) with Local WP on PC - what needs a little tuning to get it running with nice performance. That out the way - here comes the strange behaviour:
The WP backend is really fast. But the frontend… uhhh! What has this to do with Bricks? That´s it. It seems to be the only theme where this slowdown happens. All ‘standard’ WP themes + some tested like OceanWP are blazing fast. Only at Bricks the site takes about 5 seconds to build up.
Somebody around who stumbled upon this too? Or any ideas what could cause this?
Even stranger… I had a Local WP installation where it worked well. But no chance right now.
Have to get back to this with some more testing done today. I can´t hang loose from ‘Local’ as I´m so close…
Installed the plugin ‘Query Monitor’. And - it´s not only about deactivating the Google fonts via filter. It seems there are happening HTTP API Calls with bricks - that cause the slowdown.
Loading the default post page in frontend with no content (images) it takes milliseconds to generate the page. If I put some content like images inside Bricks do these API Calls and it takes around 4 seconds for every call.
Also - using a different theme the calls want happen.
This is not my ground - so maybe You have a guess what´s the matter?!
I use LocalWP on both a Windows 11 machine and several Macs and have never had these problems. Can you possibly create a screen recording and explain what happens, so that we can understand it a bit better?
Please also try Omega’s suggestion, maybe that helps already
Yes - i have been through this journey at the Local forum!
One thing was not set for me - the Router ‘localhost’. This really makes a change to the frontend speed.
Still wondering… could it be a SSL issue? I have installed the ‘Query Monitor’ on a test live site with Bricks and it makes the API Calls as well - only much much faster. The difference I see is the HTTPS protocol.
My experience in Local is that despite Router Mode ‘Site Domain’ the page does not really load with HTTPS. Is this normal?
Possibly. I suspect the same. The issue is only occuring on Windows though. Not on Linux or MacOS. So not able to pinpoint what was causing it. You can run WSL with GUI & install local on Ubuntu instance. I just use local wp for occasional testing. I prefer dev environment on a vps instance.
There are also other tools like lando, laragon and devkinsta which you may give a shot.
@shenom I have got rid of Local WP & migrated to Laragon. It outperforms Local WP in terms of performance and allows me to use ssl at the same time. It’s windows only. I am very impressed with the performance.