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hey kureman;
I had a look at the HTML of your website, but unfortunately I don’t see any reference to Autoptimize in there, meaning that either you turned it off already or something (another plugin?) is conflicting. Can you start by confirming if AO is active and if so what your settings are?
frank
Hi @optimizingmatters,
Thank you for your fast feedback!
Oops, indeed I turned it off temporarily. It’s now active again.
Sorry I don’t know how it’s written in English, but here are the settings I chose.
I am using WP Super Cache btw.
1. JavaScript options
Optimize JavaScript code ?
Do not concatenate but defer?
Defer inline JS as well?
2. CSS options
Optimize CSS code ?
Concatenate CSS files ?
Concatenate also inline CSS?
(default) Exclude CSS files from Autoptimize : admin-bar.min.css, dashicons.min.css, wp-content/cache/, wp-content/uploads/
3. HTML options
Optimize HTML code ?
Also minify inline JS/ CSS?
4. Various options
Save concatenated scripts/CSS as static files?
Minimize excluded CSS and JS files?
Enable fallback in case of 404 error?
Optimize also for logged in editors and administrators?
Optimize shopping cart or order pages as well?
Enable configuration by publication/page?
well, congratulations, your load time went from 5 to 1.8s 🙂
or are you still seeing 5s?
Impressive!
Thank you 🙂
Maybe I had to wait a bit before testing again with pingdom..
Still, I don’t understand why it’s faster.
Because in Pingdom > Content size by content type I see: JS Script 1.1 MB, CSS 229.2 KB
And I had the same results without Autoptimize.
For some unknown reasons the performance grade hasn’t change too.
well, you could try the “aggregate JS” option, which will combine all JS and load it deferred in the footer, but I’m not sure if that will *really* improve performance despite pingdom suggesting less HTTP requests.
typically I prefer assessing performance (and perf. improvements) using Google Pagespeed Insights (simpler) or webpagetest.org (more in-depth & configurable) and in those focus on relevant KPI’s (which is not a grade and not even the “load time”).
I had a quick look at pagespeed insights for your site and the most important thing to tackle based on that tool are … images. Consider using the image optimization option in Autoptimize or use a separate plugin to ensure images are served as webp or AVIF where possible?
Thank you for your many advices!
I will definitively have a look at Google Pagespeed Insights and webpagetest.org.
At present I am using TinyPNG. I like it but there is a monthly compression limit that I have already reached 🙁 I will probably wait next month to act on images..