Coyote Speed for Divi

Description

Most speed plugins try to be everything to everyone. Coyote Speed for Divi does the essentials for Divi 5 brochure sites, blogs and business sites, and nothing else.

It works alongside Divi’s own performance features instead of fighting them. Divi already handles critical CSS and only loads the CSS and JavaScript each page needs, so this plugin never touches Divi’s CSS.

Not affiliated with Divi or Elegant Themes

Coyote Speed for Divi is an independent plugin made by Wiredcoyote Digital. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Elegant Themes, Inc. or the Divi theme. Divi and Elegant Themes are trademarks of Elegant Themes, Inc., used here only to describe which theme this plugin works with.

What it does

• Page caching. Each page is saved as a ready-made file. On Apache and LiteSpeed servers it’s sent straight from disk without loading WordPress at all.
• Divi-aware cache clearing. The cache clears itself when you save pages, posts or menus, or change Divi presets, design variables, Theme Builder templates or theme options.
• Never caches what it shouldn’t. Logged-in users, the Divi Visual Builder, previews, searches and 404 pages always get the live site.
• Form-safe caching. Pages with forms, such as Divi contact forms and Divi Form Builder, are cached too. They’re refreshed every 6 hours, so the form’s security code never expires before a visitor sends it. That means one-page sites with a contact form get cached as well.
• Browser caching and compression. Divi’s generated CSS is always re-checked, so design changes show up straight away.
• Removes WordPress extras most Divi sites never use: emoji scripts, embeds, XML-RPC, header clutter, Dashicons for visitors, block-editor CSS on Divi-built pages and self-pingbacks. It also calms the Heartbeat and limits revisions.
• Optional extras, off until you switch them on: defer JavaScript (jQuery is left alone so Divi keeps working), remove jQuery Migrate, preconnect and preload hints, local Google Fonts (with the main font files preloaded, so text doesn’t jump when the font arrives) and WebP images.
• Delay until the visitor interacts. List heavy third-party scripts, such as review, chat or social widgets, and they load on the visitor’s first scroll, tap, click or key press instead of slowing the first view of the page.
• Database tidy-up: old revisions, spam, expired temporary data and orphaned data, on demand or weekly.

What it deliberately leaves out

Critical CSS, unused-CSS removal and CSS/JS combining (Divi handles CSS itself), CDN rewriting, lazy loading (WordPress does this natively), dashboards and reports.

Built-in safeguards

Page caching steps aside automatically, while every other feature keeps working, when:

• your host already caches pages and doesn’t allow caching plugins (WP Engine, Kinsta, Pantheon, Flywheel, Pressable, WordPress.com, GoDaddy Managed WordPress),
• your host runs its own page cache in front of WordPress (detected from your site’s response headers, for example on Hostinger or SiteGround, or Cloudflare set to cache whole pages),
• another page-caching plugin is active,
• WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads is active. Shops need cart-, checkout- and stock-aware caching, which this plugin leaves out to stay lean,
• BuddyPress, Ultimate Member or s2Member is active,
• the site is part of a multisite network (not yet tested).

Caching switches itself back on if the situation changes.

External services

This plugin uses one outside service, Google Fonts, and only if you switch on “Host Google Fonts on this server”.

• What it is and why: Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com) supplies the fonts your Divi design already uses. The plugin downloads them so your own server can serve them instead.
• What is sent and when: the first time a page needs a font that hasn’t been downloaded yet, your server requests that font’s stylesheet and files from Google, once per font. Only the font addresses are requested. No data about your visitors or your site’s content is sent. After that, visitors load the fonts from your own server and nothing is sent to Google.
• Provider: Google LLC. Terms of service: https://policies.google.com/terms. Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Apart from this, the plugin only sends requests to your own site: to warm up the cache for your home page after it has been cleared, and to check whether your host already caches pages. These requests never leave your site.

The scripts listed in the settings page’s “Delay until the visitor interacts” box are only matched against scripts your site already loads. The plugin never contacts them itself.