On many websites, images contribute significantly to slow load times. This post is a place for me to collect tips on optimizing images on Divi sites to increase page speed load times.Remove Images / Reduce Image Sizes An easy first step in reducing the impact of...
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Disable jQuery Deferral in Divi
Divi 4.10 introduced a range of performance improvements, including disabling jQuery deferral until later in the page. However, if you are seeing errors in the browser console relating to jQuery or its functions not being defined (and correspondingly that some of the...
Disable Dynamic Icons in Divi
The Divi 4.10 release added a raft of speed improvements, including 'dynamic icons', a mechanism by which the standard Elegant Themes font icon is split up and subsets of the icon are loaded only as needed. Now, only a portion of the full icon set is loaded by...
Stop Request for Logo Image When Hidden
When you hide the logo in the Divi, you may notice that a request for the logo image is still made by the page. This is because the logo image is hidden, but is still referenced by the HTML source of the page. So the browser loads the image in anticipation of the logo...
Enable Compression for the Divi Theme
As with any site, speed is often an important requirement for those built using Divi. With Google using the speed at which your site loads as a factor in determining how high to rank it in their search results, if you want a good ranking, a fast site is critical....