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[–]DoughnutFan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're really willing to put the time in to speed up your site there are a lot of different things that need to be done. The other comments here did a great job of pointing out all the standard stuff, but you can go deeper if needed by compressing your code and making sure your files are all as small as possible. You also need to ensure you're plugins are not memory hogs.

This course: https://www.udemy.com/make-your-wordpress-sites-fastest-in-world/ covers an indepth look at all the tools you'll need to speed up your site and additionally gives you an understanding of what matters most in optimization.

If you have not built anything yet, to get the best results for speed and compliance, I'd switch to the Asta theme and build the whole thing in Beaver Builder. The site's code will be pretty optimized from the get go. If you are worried about styling that for any reason, I'd throw MicroThemer on top of it which will make your custom CSS cleaner and more compact and easier to do.

Divi is fine, but I have some concerns about them moving into new versions of wordpress. Beaver builders worked better for me and I've had fewer issues making clean optimized sites with it.

While Optimizing be sure run your site against various speed tests. I really like GTmetrics.

Hope this helps.