Merge + Minify + Refresh

I used a website speed test to look at the differences before and after installing this plugin. Of course I waited a while for the merging and minifying to take effect i.e. I visited my website and moved from page to page. The plugin got the number of requests down by 20. What about speed? Well the load time does vary. Even without the plugin, sometimes the website responded a bit faster. It looks like this plugin has reduced the load time for my website by 0.8 seconds. To get this reduction in load time, I had to turn on “enable output buffering” and both “enable preload” options. Without these options turned on the speed increase was about 0.4 or 0.5 seconds. This an excellent result. Thanks very much. Now http2 is supposed to make merging have less effect. Is this really true? Is this still the case? Are all the effects from minifying or are they from merging as well?

Marisa

April 8, 2023

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1 reply

It seems to me that: * if the CSS files has @includes it will not work. The option to skip CSS seems to be ignored * If the site is password protected (htpasswd protected site) the minifying part will be skipped.

thorsenrune

August 31, 2022

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5 replies

Great plugin. Works as expected. Thank you.

Adnan Afzal

June 22, 2022

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I used a website speed test to look at the differences before and after installing this plugin. Of course I waited a while for the merging and minifying to take effect i.e. I visited my website and moved from page to page. The plugin got the number of requests down by 20. What about speed? Well the load time does vary. Even without the plugin, sometimes the website responded a bit faster. It looks like this plugin has reduced the load time for my website by 0.8 seconds. To get this reduction in load time, I had to turn on “enable output buffering” and both “enable preload” options. Without these options turned on the speed increase was about 0.4 or 0.5 seconds. This an excellent result. Thanks very much. Now http2 is supposed to make merging have less effect. Is this really true? Is this still the case? Are all the effects from minifying or are they from merging as well?

Marisa

April 8, 2023

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1 reply

Great plugin. Works as expected. Thank you.

Adnan Afzal

June 22, 2022

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I discovered that autoptimize generated unwanted 302 redirections. There was a reason for it. autoptimize generates new CSS and JS filenames from time to time. So, then googlebot is lost and autoptimize creates a 302 redirect from old to newly generated CSS and JS files. If you disable their Merge, minify is much better. it uses variables in the URL to show new versions of files. For your information this is the Wordpress approach. It is the best because, Googlebot understands it and it does not create a 404 or a 302 when a CSS file or a JS file is refreshed. To my knowledge this plugin is the only one with this approach. It is super simple. The developer of this plugin didn’t add useless features. i like it. You just install and it is ready out of the box. We don’t need other features. We need this plugin to remain efficient with new versions and to remain the best as it is now. I can see that in the background, this plugin does a great job. It reduces the number of files to the minimum and it is really lightweight. By far, this plugin is the best Merge, minify wordpress plugin

stepsahead

June 4, 2022

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1 reply

Combines, but doesn’t properly minify .js and fails on dynamic parts of Woocommerce checkout page – vanilla theme – both .js and css.

cammy999

May 30, 2021

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1 reply

It seems to me that: * if the CSS files has @includes it will not work. The option to skip CSS seems to be ignored * If the site is password protected (htpasswd protected site) the minifying part will be skipped.

thorsenrune

August 31, 2022

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5 replies

I used a website speed test to look at the differences before and after installing this plugin. Of course I waited a while for the merging and minifying to take effect i.e. I visited my website and moved from page to page. The plugin got the number of requests down by 20. What about speed? Well the load time does vary. Even without the plugin, sometimes the website responded a bit faster. It looks like this plugin has reduced the load time for my website by 0.8 seconds. To get this reduction in load time, I had to turn on “enable output buffering” and both “enable preload” options. Without these options turned on the speed increase was about 0.4 or 0.5 seconds. This an excellent result. Thanks very much. Now http2 is supposed to make merging have less effect. Is this really true? Is this still the case? Are all the effects from minifying or are they from merging as well?

Marisa

April 8, 2023

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1 reply