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Optimizing Images in Divi

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...

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...

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....