A lot of WordPress themes are released everyday, many themes are extremely good looking and well designed, but it is not only the good look of the theme we should look into. For deciding we best theme to use in our blog we should look upon a lot of factors like SEO features, loading speed etc.
Today I am writing this post to show you some of the fastest loading WordPress theme that are there. As we all know speed in today’s world has a lot of impact on SEO as well as on the visitors. If your theme is slow loading then you will certainly loose many visitors because the blog may take a lot time to load and visitors do not like waiting long for the site to load on the other hand even the search engine spiders may not be able to crawl the blog properly if your blog is slow which in turn will prove bad for your site’s SEO.
Also you will be losing a lot of Conversion and Ads and affiliates because the ads will load slow since the theme is slow. So probably you should use a fast loading theme so that your blog loads faster and you can save yourself from the above problems. Moreover if your host is slow then there themes can do a lot good to you.
1) Swift:
SWIFT, as the name says is the fastest loading, SEO optimized server friendly wordpress theme. This theme is mainly aimed at blogs running on low server resources and for those who like clean and simple designs. It’s always good have themes like SWIFT at your disposal so that you can easily switch to it if you are expecting a spike in traffic from social media sites. Here are some of the best features of SWIFT which makes it stand away from crowd.
1. Loads very fast, minimum number of http requests. Your server will love it
2. Zero images used.
3. Clean typography.
4. SEO friendly, For example,this theme uses h1 tag for post titles, instead of the blog title.
5. Cross browser compatible (Works well on ie6 too
, except for the curves )
6. Lot of features in to the options page to make your SWIFT THEME unique
7. Popular posts are highlighted on the home page to give them more exposure, this will turn the first time visitors to your blog into regular readers.
8. Sidebar and footer with four widgetised sections.
9. Eight different color schemes to choose from.
10. Ads integrated into theme options page.
11. Fully XHTML Complaint
12. WordPress MU Compatible
To know more about the theme and download it, visit http://swiftthemes.com/2009/08/wordpress-themes/swift-the-fastest-loading-wordpress-theme/ Demo: http://geeksplanet.net/ http://swiftthemes.com Download: http://swiftthemes.com/download/
2) 281:
The 281 WordPress theme is designed to look minimalist, load fast, and rank well in search engines. It’s a simple two-column, black-and-white theme that provides a simple blog layout. It’s also well coded, so provides a good base to work off if you’re looking for a template you can pull apart and put back together again. Even some simple style and colour changes can make this theme looking very appealing. It’s already very legible and puts the content front and centre.
Features:
- Simple, stylish design
- Fast to load
- Optimised for search engines
- Highly legible
- Simple to make small changes and create a unique design
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3) Corbodo Green Park 2:
Cordobo Green Park 2 is a simple & elegant light-weight theme for WordPress, built on top of the fastest known page-rendering optimizations and seo in mind. 
Featurelist
- Fully compatible with WordPress 2.7.1 to 2.9.2 and WordPress 3.0 Alpha
- Settings page: easily configuration of the theme itself, Twitter &, Feedburner integration, Google Adsense and Google Analytics
- Support for WordPress widgets
- Light-weight: optimized CSS for fastest cross-browser rendering, less graphics
- Fast: the minimum set of SQL queries
- Findability: SEO optimizations for humans and search-engines
- Accessible: clean and structured code for screen-readers and “jump links” for navigation
- A very clean typography for advanced readability
- Intense use of image sprites for less http-requests
- Built-In Twitter support
- Built-In Sitepagination-Plugin support
- Nested comments
Demo | Download
4) WPSimpy:
WPsimpy is one of the fastest professional WordPress theme. It designed only with valid CSS, without using much images. Checkout the demo page. You will feel how fast it is.
Features: Widgetised footer and sidebar. Customizable colors. Gravatar enabled comment system. Valid CSS Fast load time. Adsense and seo friendly More details and download available here.
Demo:
Download:
http://www.downhub.com/download-wpsimpy-wordpress-theme/
5) Afterburner
Afterburner is the fastest WordPress theme ever and is completely free. The theme balances speed and search engine optimisation with a full feature set. The theme is based on the standard SEO layout used in club templates, and is therefore fully dynamic and collapsible.
An assortment of 8 preset styles, both light and dark also accompany the template.
- Speed Optimisation
- SEF Optimised Layout
- Advanced Colour Selection
- Suckerfish Dropdown Menu
- 8 Preset Styles – Light / Dark Variations
- 14 Widget Positions
- FF3.5, Opera 9.6, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
- W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid
Demo | Download
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does these themes load like a Rocket? Zoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Thanks for the Share
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admin Reply:
March 28th, 2010 at 6:28 am
Well ya…it does…lol…if you have a good enough connection…it surely does
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Excellent post. I was looking for this info for some time. If you found anymore theme please update the post. Great one. Thanks
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admin Reply:
March 29th, 2010 at 3:21 am
Surely Afif, Will update with new ones as soon as I find anything. Hope so this will be useful to you
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I love the Swift themes. I’ve used them in the past and they worked quite good and fast.
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admin Reply:
March 29th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Ya I agree with you. Good to see that you liked the post
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Thanks for this.. Some really great themes..
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admin Reply:
March 29th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Nice to know you liked it Chimica n Welcome to Netchunks
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But do you think , it can beat Thesis themes ??
Anyways i am changing my theme to Wp Simpy , lets see how it works
Thanks for the list
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admin Reply:
March 29th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Beating Thesis? Nah man. Thesis is like Supremo of all themes, Nothing can beat it. It is just for people who cannot buy Thesis due to finances. Ya! It is certainly better than all the other free themes
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jackhole Reply:
March 29th, 2010 at 10:49 am
LOL! Thesis everywhere. IMHO its not the best.. good list. Could have added more
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admin Reply:
March 29th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Well Ya, actually it depends on a person and what can he do with his site. He can certainly make his blog very popular even without Thesis. Well ya I just added the fastest ones which I felt were good enough. Even though there are more fast themes but all are totally bare ones. Thanks for visiting the blog
I have used GreenPark. its a good theme and loads very fast
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Just what i needed! A fast loading blog! Thanks for sharing bro
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Thanks bro nice info
ill be try
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Since Google is a resource hogger, I’m a get me one of these fast loading themes.
Great resource article indeed. Thank you.
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shivachettri Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Well yup Big G just declared , go bro get yourself a fast theme otherwise your site will come down in my rankings so that is why i also changed my theme to one of these. Thank god I had already done some research
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great article
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Great collection, I used WPSimpy for 2 websites already. thanks
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shivachettri Reply:
April 29th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Great to know you liked it Omer. Thanks for commenting mate
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Thanks Shiva for the article, I always enjoying theme
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shivachettri Reply:
May 4th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Great to know u liked it Latief
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nice article , thanks
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admin Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Great to know you liked it
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i am using Swift theme and i must say it is one of then best theme witch i have used, it has really good look and seo is also good
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admin Reply:
May 14th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Yup MostlyBlog Swift is the best free theme, both SEO friendly and well designed. This blog is also based on Swift
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This is my very first time i visit here. I discovered so numerous interesting stuff in your blog especially its discussion. From the tons of comments on your articles, I guess I am not the only one having all the enjoyment here! maintain up the good function.
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I like wp simpy the most
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
June 16th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
WP Simpy is quite a fast loading theme Avi..
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Thanks for sharing it good to know some fastest theme.
I like the swift theme it loads fast as compare to them which i have used previously.
–Regards
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
June 16th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Yup, I too use the swift theme because of its speed
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I Use Swift Its Really Fast and Clean! loading time 4 Sec Average!
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Thanks for the great wordpress themes, I have been seeking for a long time and these templates are what I really want to use for my new blog.
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i use teh simplest of all with ni fancy images , called clear white
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Good collection bro..WpSimpy & Swift look promising
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Nice collection of fast themes. thanks
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