How To Speed Up Divi or WordPress Site ?

We come across various social media platform that how to speed up Divi Site or Website.

I myself was running very slow, with page load times of 10+ seconds. This was bad in terms of annoying the hell out of my users and making Google take a dim view of my website too. You can test your site performance using free online tools such as Pingdom or GTMetrix. GT Metrix gives you a nice results page that outlines where you may be going wrong which makes it much easier to plan what needs to be done

Steps to Speed up or Optimize your site:

A. Try Install Cache Plugins as mentioned below.

Top 3 Free Fastest WordPress Caching Plugins

WP Fastest Cache : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/ Active installations : 500,000+
W3 Total Cache : https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/ Active installations : 1+ million
WP Super Cache : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ Active installations : 1+ million

B. Compressing & Resizing Images:

Top Plugins that will help in Optimizing images or Better you do it manually.

WP-Smush:

WP-Smush Plugin URL

EWWW Optimizer Plugin:

EWWW Optimizer Plugin

C. Remove query strings from static resources : Remove query strings plugin > This plugin does exactly what it says on the tin. Resources with a “?” or “&” in the URL are not cached by some proxy caching servers, so moving the query string and encode the parameters into the URL will increase your WordPress site performance significant.

D. CDN to improvise page speed time > Best CDN:

https://www.cloudflare.com/
MAX- CDN

E. WP Performance Score Booster > WP Performance Score Booster

minify JS and CSS file which will include two phases of Optimization Minify and Combine
Enable GZIP compression (compress text, html, javascript, css, xml and so on)
Add Vary: Accept-Encoding header
leverage browser caching

F. Delete WP post and page revisions – WP-Optimize: Plugin allows you to quickly delete them (and other entries cluttering up your database) and free up your database for faster processing times.

G. Run Latest Divi version & Update WordPress version / Themes etc

H. Install security plugins that might slower the website:

ITheme Security Plugin URL

WordFence Plugin

I. Upgrade your Hosting to latest PHP version and clear cache at Hosting side.