Kajabi  ·  Performance Optimisation  · PageSpeed  ·  SEO ·  Creator Business  ·  MiniSprint

Desktop PageSpeed  |  Before: 67 |  After: 88  |  +21 points

Desktop Speed Index  |  Before: 2.7s |  After: 1.2s  |  55% faster

Mobile PageSpeed  |  Before: 61 |  After: 67  |  +6 points

Mobile Speed Index  |  Before: 6.5s |  After: 3.6s  |  45% faster

 

If you have a Kajabi site — or any hosted creator platform — that is loading more slowly than the quality of your content deserves, this engagement shows what is achievable within the platform's constraints.

Spiral Syllabus is the platform of Dr Karen Kirkness — a yoga practitioner, researcher, and PhD in medical sciences whose work is published in peer-reviewed journals and whose book is recommended by the author of Anatomy Trains. The platform had excellent content and real credibility. The problem was technical: a Desktop PageSpeed score of 67 and a Speed Index of 2.7 seconds. The work was a Mini Sprint of discovery followed by implementation — identifying the specific bottlenecks, making targeted adjustments where page structure was contributing to load time, and applying technical optimisations within Kajabi's settings layer. Every change served at least one of two goals: clearer user journey or faster load time. Usually both simultaneously.

Before any changes were made, the specific bottlenecks affecting the Spiral Syllabus site were identified and measured. Image assets not compressed or served at optimal dimensions. Page sections with rendering overhead disproportionate to their content value. Font loading behaviour blocking initial render. Embedded elements adding unnecessary script weight. The implementation addressed them in order of impact.

For your platform: performance work without a diagnostic produces random changes rather than improvements. Knowing which specific factors are contributing to your PageSpeed score is the difference between targeted optimisation and guesswork.

Some of the performance drag was structural — page sections whose design required the browser to do more rendering work than their content value justified. Where that was the case, the section was simplified or restructured. These changes served both goals simultaneously — a cleaner page structure is easier to navigate and faster to render. The design updates were targeted, not a visual overhaul, but they were real changes made to improve how visitors move through the site as well as how quickly it loads.

For your platform: every design decision on a Kajabi page has a performance cost alongside its content value. If you have never evaluated your pages on both dimensions simultaneously, there are almost certainly sections where the cost exceeds the benefit.

Kajabi doesn't give direct access to the code layer — which means performance optimisation happens at the content and settings layer. Image compression and optimal sizing. Font loading optimisation. Embedded element management. Section weight reduction. Within those constraints, the Spiral Syllabus implementation achieved a 21-point desktop PageSpeed gain and a 55% Speed Index improvement. The ceiling is lower than on an open platform — but the ceiling is higher than most Kajabi sites are anywhere near.

For your platform: most Kajabi sites are operating well below their achievable performance ceiling. The optimisation levers that Kajabi does expose — image compression, font loading, section structure, embedded elements — are consistently underused. A systematic pass through them produces measurable results.

Alongside the performance work, SEO improvements were applied within Kajabi's available parameters: meta titles and descriptions for updated pages, heading hierarchy aligned to actual search queries, image alt text, and internal linking between the blog, publications, and programme pages. The SEO work and the performance work reinforce each other — faster pages rank better, and better-structured pages are more accurately indexed.

For your platform: if your Kajabi meta titles were auto-generated or have never been manually set, they are almost certainly not optimised for the actual queries your audience uses. This is a low-effort, high-impact fix available in Kajabi's page settings.

 

Client:  Spiral Syllabus — Dr Karen Kirkness

Industry:  Creator Business / Movement Education / Yoga Teacher Training

Platform:  Kajabi

Sprint:  Mini Sprint — discovery and implementation, under two weeks

Scope:  Technical performance optimisation · Design updates in service of load time · SEO optimisation

Desktop result:  PageSpeed 67 → 88 (+21 points) · Speed Index 2.7s → 1.2s (55% faster)

Mobile result:  PageSpeed 61 → 67 (+6 points) · Speed Index 6.5s → 3.6s (45% faster)

Verified by:  Google PageSpeed Insights — before and after reports saved

 

If your Kajabi site is loading more slowly than its content deserves — book a sprint diagnostic. Free, thirty minutes, identifies the specific bottlenecks and what is achievable within your platform's constraints.