WordPress is the best and most preferred CMS of all times. With more than 50% of websites now running on wordpress, wordpress themes are in demand these days. And as a result many popular Themes Clubs and Stores have come up. Many of these are now every designer’s list such as Elegant Themes, Theme Forest, Mojo-Themes and many more.

A common trend which has been seen in the premium theme stores is that though these are good looking themes but because of their nature and design, these themes are slow loading and are not w3c validated, which is a major concern when it comes to ranking higher in Search engines. Such themes are particularly important for small blog owners who want to get attention from Search engines which in most of the cases is the primary source of visitors.

This motivated me to find the fastest WordPress theme and following were the results which you’ll see:

1. SwiftThemes

2. vCandy

3. WP Simpy

4. After Burner

5. TwntyEleven

I did a small comparison among these themes  and here are my results:See Results

I even tested out with TwentyTen and TwentyEleven themes under the same installation by switching themes and found that vCandy did come out to be the fastest theme with lowest loading time.

Plus best of all vCandy is 100% W3Cvalidated. See yourself

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