Title: Excessive DOM elements
Last modified: October 5, 2020

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# Excessive DOM elements

 *  Resolved [Demian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demian85/)
 * (@demian85)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-dom-elements/)
 * Hi,
 * Since I use the review plugin it shows me on several page speed platforms, that
   the DOM is excessive, and this is unfortunately created by the review plugin.
 * Would you consider for future updates to make the number of elements less deep
   and make it cleaner? It shows me now depth of 29 for element `<ol class="commentlist"
   >`
 * I use premium themes and page builders and they take care of this, but this aspect
   I can’t control unfortunately.
 * With thanks,
    Demian

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 *  Plugin Author [CusRev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivole/)
 * (@ivole)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-dom-elements/#post-13501208)
 * Thanks for trying our plugin!
 * Can you please share URL of the page with the problem and let me know how to 
   check it on one of the “page speed platforms” that you used for testing?
 *  Thread Starter [Demian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demian85/)
 * (@demian85)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-dom-elements/#post-13502343)
 * Hi,
 * Please check this PageSpeed tool from Google, and look for Avoid an Excessive
   DOM size.
 * [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Feeltsokken.nl%2F](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Feeltsokken.nl%2F)
 * GTMetrix reports the same, but not specified the depth of the elements. Or you
   can use Lighthouse tool from DevTools.
 *  Plugin Author [CusRev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivole/)
 * (@ivole)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-dom-elements/#post-13670604)
 * Thanks for providing additional information.
 * I checked your website and took a screenshot: [https://ibb.co/30fTtPj](https://ibb.co/30fTtPj)
 * As you can see from the screenshot, the depth of the element `<ol class="commentlist"
   >` caused by the shortcode from our plugin is just 1. The rest of the depth is
   created by the theme even before the shortcode appears in the HTML.
 * Unfortunately, we can’t really reduce the depth of 1. So, I think the best way
   forward is to reach out to the developer of the theme used on your website and
   ask them to make it cleaner.
 *  Plugin Author [CusRev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivole/)
 * (@ivole)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-dom-elements/#post-13732918)
 * We haven’t heard from you for more than two weeks. For this reason, I’ll assume
   that either you are not interested in this question/problem anymore or it has
   been resolved. If this is not the case, please let us know and we’ll be happy
   to help.

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 * Last reply from: [CusRev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivole/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-dom-elements/#post-13732918)
 * Status: resolved