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Great job! It just goes to show that you can perfectly optimize almost anything. 😉
We've also built a couple of sites where we used Genesis and the Divi Builder plugin but this was a few years back. I'm not sure we'd take the same approach today. It just depends on the design.
Also, to circle back to your original post...I think Divi is ideal if you're primarily a graphic artist, and not a developer, and use Divi as the design creation tool, instead of using Photoshop or a wireframing prototyping tool. There's also hundreds of layouts packs, as they call it, available through the builder that you can drop in and edit...including royalty free pictures.
Again, Divi is just another tool in our belt in addition to Genesis, and other themes that we've purchased, and certainly not a replacement.
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Saying there are better options is quite subjective. Tell us why you think so.
I generally find that the criticisms of Divi are largely "fanboy" comments and hearsay and not based on fact or current experience.
Regarding Beaver Builder, we've never used it on any client site. We have used Elementor (free edition) on a number of our non-Divi sites.
My pleasure...always interested in reading about what other devs use, etc. and sharing our experiences.
I have to say, my big issue with Gutenberg is that most of the collections seem very incomplete. Yes, we're still in the early days of Gutenberg Blocks so I'm sure things will change significantly in year or two...at least that's the hope.
The Atomic Blocks Collection, for example, only has 14 blocks. Some of the other collections have as many as 25 blocks. You're probably going to have to install several collections to get the blocks you need. This is a far cry from Divi's 46 modules.
This happened with a client that was our very first (and last) Gutenberg site. We installed 2 blocks collections for a total of 6 plugins required to get what we needed. In the end, we ripped it all out and installed Elementor, which has 30 widgets (as they call it). So, yes, we replaced 6 plugins with 1. The client was very happy about the switch. They didn't quite like Gutenberg.
Divi is more than just a theme. It's also a page builder with nearly 50 modules. As such, we're able to build much more graphically rich and dynamic sites. You can easily add special effects, shape dividers, animations, and transitions...all with a drag and drop interface.
With Genesis, you might need to add a number of separate plugins to get similar features and functionality. However, each of these plugins won't have a consistent UI and will have their own learning curve. At least with Divi, there's a unified UI/UX across everything including the modules.
It's also why saying that Divi is bloated isn't quite a fair statement. Again, it's much more that just a theme.
That said, Divi is not for everyone's tastes. There's certainly issues with it, some already stated. Genesis, on the other hand, is rock solid.
Anyway, as an agency, we certainly don't want to be limited to just one theme and expect it to be the best at everything. We're always experimenting with other themes and page builders to find optimum workflows.
Speaking of workflows, along with Genesis, we also purchased the Dynamik Website Builder (DWB) and Genesis Extender (GE), both from Cobalt Apps. The difference is that DWB functions as a child theme where as GE is a plugin so you can use your own Genesis child theme. Definitely take a look at their site. Their tools have saved us so much time and effort:
I hope this helps!
Hi Everyone,
My agency has created several dozen sites with Genesis as well as Divi. My point is, we use Divi just as much as Genesis. While I won't argue that Divi has certainly become bloated over the past year, something we are not too happy about, it can still perform extremely well.
I saw this on the Divi Facebook Group where an individual benchmarked his Divi sites. If I recall correctly, it was as a direct response to those Oxygen performance videos. As an aside, we bought Oxygen over a year ago and have yet to make a client single with with it.
Needless to say, the results are very impressive. If I can dig up the original post, I'll reference it here.