10 Common Brizy Performance Problems and How to Fix Them

If your Brizy-built website feels slow or heavy, you’re not alone.

Brizy is known for its simplicity and visual clarity, but like any theme builder, it can introduce extra CSS, JavaScript, and layout complexity behind the scenes. Add large images or weak hosting into the mix, and your load times can quickly spiral.

The good news? Most performance problems come down to a handful of predictable causes — and they’re easy to fix once you know where to look.

This blog post explores the most common Brizy speed and performance issues, along with practical, Brizy-specific solutions you can implement today.

1. Conflicting image optimization plugins

This problem affects all page builders, but Brizy makes it more noticeable because its blocks often rely heavily on large background images.

A surprisingly common mistake is running multiple image optimization plugins at once. You might think having ShortPixel, Smush, Imagify, and LiteSpeed’s image optimizer all active will give you better compression. In reality, they fight over the same files.

One plugin compresses the file, another tries to re-compress it, and suddenly:

• broken image URLs
• thumbnails fail to generate
• double-processing bloat, where you end up with multiple versions of the same file cluttering your server.

The fix is simple: choose one image optimizer and disable the rest.

ShortPixel Image Optimizer is a great choice because it integrates smoothly with Brizy, compresses while maintaining quality, and supports WebP & AVIF.

Before activating it, delete any old or conflicting image optimization plugins to avoid double-processing issues.

2. Using large, uncompressed images

Let’s address the biggest culprit of Brizy slowness: oversized images.

Brizy users rely heavily on hero blocks, full-width backgrounds, sliders, and galleries. It’s visually stunning, but only if your images are properly optimized.

Upload a 5MB hero background straight from a DSLR camera, and you’re guaranteed:

• poor mobile performance
• a failing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score
• longer load times
• layout shifts as images pop in late

A single unoptimized hero image can slow down your entire homepage.

Here’s the ideal workflow:

1. Resize before upload: Hero images: max 1920px. Standard images: 1200px or less. Never upload 5000px stock photos as-is.
2. Compress with ShortPixel. Smart lossy compression can reduce image sizes by 70%–90% without visible quality loss.
3. Convert to modern formats. WebP and AVIF dramatically improve load time compared to JPG and PNG.
4. Enable lazy loading. Background images in Brizy blocks can be particularly large. Lazy loading prevents them from blocking initial rendering.

If you follow only one recommendation from this article, make it this one. Image optimization has the biggest ROI on performance, especially for design-heavy Brizy sites.

3. Too many CSS/JS requests generated by Brizy

Every Brizy block adds its own script and stylesheet. Add global styling, inline elements, animations, and third-party widgets, and your page can easily end up loading:

• dozens of CSS files
• multiple JavaScript bundles
• extra font files
• icon packs

Browsers have to request each file separately, creating a waterfall of delays.

Even on fast hosting, this adds friction that you can’t ignore.

The fix begins with optimization at both the builder and plugin level:

• Minify and combine CSS/JS using a plugin like FastPixel
• Delay non-critical scripts
• Host fonts locally instead of using Google Fonts
• Reduce the number of blocks in complex layouts

Always test after enabling minification or combination. These optimizations can occasionally affect layout rendering or animations.

4. Slow hosting and low server resources

If your Time to First Byte (TTFB) is high, no amount of frontend optimization can compensate.

Brizy is a dynamic builder, meaning it relies on PHP to generate your pages. If your hosting is slow, your website will feel slow regardless of how optimized your assets are.

Typical symptoms include:

• slow first load
• Brizy editor loading forever
• random timeouts when saving
• pages taking 2–3 seconds before the first byte
• heavy load during traffic spikes

Cheap shared hosting plans often split resources across hundreds of websites. When someone else on the server gets a traffic spike, you pay the price.

Minimum Brizy-friendly hosting requirements:

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• 256MB+ PHP memory (512MB recommended)
• NVMe SSD storage
• Cloudflare or Redis caching available
• 1 vCPU minimum dedicated performance

If your hosting doesn’t meet these standards, upgrading will yield immediate performance improvements, especially in the Brizy editor.

5. Complex layouts and deeply nested Brizy structures

Brizy’s drag-and-drop builder makes it easy to nest elements inside other elements, creating deeply layered structures without realizing it.

For example, you may end up with:

• a section…
• containing a row…
• containing a column…
• containing a wrapper…
• containing the actual text module

Each layer adds to the Document Object Model (DOM), making it heavier for browsers to parse.

A common warning from PageSpeed Insights: Optimize DOM size

Brizy’s classic building structure tends to produce more HTML markup than necessary.

How to reduce DOM size:

• Simplify layouts; avoid unnecessary sections
• Use margins and padding instead of empty containers
• Don’t nest columns if a single block can do the job
• Remove decorative elements that add HTML but no UX value
• Use Global Blocks wisely; they can add markup everywhere

Streamlining your DOM can drastically improve rendering performance.

6. Unused Brizy global assets and styling bloat

Brizy tends to load global assets, including fonts, icons, and color palettes, on every page, even if that specific page doesn’t use them.

If you’ve changed your design direction multiple times, you might be loading five different font families when you only display two.

The fix: Audit your Global Styling settings.

Remove any global fonts that are no longer part of your active design. This cleanup can shave a few hundred KB off your total page weight.

7. Using too many fonts

Brizy makes it easy to set custom styling per element; but that convenience can quickly turn into performance bloat.

Styling problems often include:

• more than 2 different fonts used across the site
• 4 – 8 font weights loaded (300, 400, 500, 600, 700…)

This not only increases file size but also complicates the rendering process.

Fix:

• Stick to one or two font families
• Use WOFF2 local fonts. You can look for your preferred font via Google Fonts, download it, and add it to Brizy styling panel directly.

Consistency = faster loading + cleaner design.

8. Bloat from third-party Brizy add-ons

While Brizy’s ecosystem is smaller than Elementor’s, third-party add-on packs can still introduce significant drag.

Many of these plugins load their entire CSS/JS library on every page, regardless of whether you are using their widgets.

The fix is straightforward. Be ruthless with add-ons. If you only use one specific widget from a massive add-on pack, see if you can recreate it natively in Brizy or with a lighter code snippet.

9. No caching and no CDN

Without caching, your server has to rebuild the Brizy page from scratch for every single visitor.

This involves querying the database, processing PHP, and generating HTML; a slow and resource-intensive process.

The fix: FastPixel is an excellent all-in-one solution here. It not only caches your pages but also serves your assets from a global CDN (Content Delivery Network). This ensures that a visitor in London and a visitor in Tokyo both download your assets from a server near them, drastically reducing latency times.

10. Database bloat and Brizy revision history

Every time you hit “Update” in Brizy, WordPress stores a revision of that page.

Over months of design tweaking, your database can fill up with thousands of old revisions and unused table rows.

This bloat slows down database queries, making both your live site and the Brizy editor feel sluggish.

Clean the database: Regularly remove expired transients and old revisions. There are various database cleaner plugins that can help with this.

Limit revisions: Add define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 5); to your wp-config.php file.