Divi Ultimate Header Speed Issues

hello,

I purchased and am using the Divi Ultimate Header on my agency site Stifel-Marcin.com. Our SEO team has been reviewing the site for speed and other potential issues and is seeing that the header seems to be a source of potential page load slow down. In their words:

“It seems like interacting with that is a potential source of look-up issues.. The menu appears to be called out on Google site speed as having “an excessive DOM size”. It says it is looking up more than 1500 elements in that.”

Is this something anyone has come across before? Is there something I have installed wrong or need to adjust? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Nick

 

Thank You for the quick response and looking into this!

So while you are right on the homepage not having that call out I am seeing it on almost every other page of our site. Doing some research over the weekend I see that on a lot of the subpages, this bloat seems to be coming from MetaSlider's we have included on the pages. I am going to try and remove as many of those as possible and I have enables lazy loading, since those are below the page fold hopefully that will pep things up. Doing a page speed test on one of our subpages :
https://www.stifel-marcin.com/industry/manufacturing-marketing-agency/
https://developers.google.com/speed...y/manufacturing-marketing-agency/&tab=desktop
I am seeing the excessive DOM size on this page, in the list of call outs it seems to be some menu related items in this list. I guess my question is if there are any styles or code that I can and should remove based on the fact that the ultimate header we got had six or more different layouts, but we are only using one?

Thank you in advance for helping me out on this. This is not my area of expertise but I am trying to clean up our site as much as I possibly can.

Nick