Title: A Little Confused
Last modified: September 26, 2020

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# A Little Confused

 *  Resolved [nootkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nootkan/)
 * (@nootkan)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-little-confused-8/)
 * Installed the plugin and it automatically inserted the following hints:
 * >  [https://www.gstatic.com](https://www.gstatic.com)
   >  [https://www.google.com](https://www.google.com)
   > [https://www.google-analytics.com](https://www.google-analytics.com) [https://stats.g.doubleclick.net](https://stats.g.doubleclick.net)
   > [https://fonts.gstatic.com](https://fonts.gstatic.com) [https://fonts.googleapis.com](https://fonts.googleapis.com)
 * with a hint type of preconnect and cross origin on the two font urls.
 * When looking at my waterfall graph the urls I see are these:
 * >  [https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js)
   > 
   > [https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js](https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js)
   > [https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/lato/v17/S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wXg.woff2](https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/lato/v17/S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wXg.woff2)
   > etc
 * Should I be adding just the domains like the auto feature does or adding the 
   whole url to the hints?

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 *  Plugin Author [Sam Perrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samperrow/)
 * (@samperrow)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-little-confused-8/#post-13456444)
 * [@nootkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nootkan/) Thanks for contacting
   me.
    The “auto preconnect” feature will automatically determine what the appropriate
   preconnect hints are that should be implemented. It does this by determining 
   what resources are loaded from external domains, and captures those domain names
   which are turned into preconnect hints. Preconnect and DNS prefetch resource 
   hints only need the domain name, and not the full URL path to work properly. 
   Prefetch, prerender, and preload use full URL’s. I recommend reading over the“
   Resource hint information” tab for some background information on how each resource
   hint works. Hope that answers your question, and I hope you find the plugin useful!
 *  Thread Starter [nootkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nootkan/)
 * (@nootkan)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-little-confused-8/#post-13457968)
 * Thanks for your replies. I did read over the information in the plugin backend
   but it is still unclear to me because when I use the auto method or the url method
   with any of the hint types I am still seeing the warning to fix inside GTMetrix,
   Googles’ page speed scripts.
 *  Plugin Author [Sam Perrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samperrow/)
 * (@samperrow)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-little-confused-8/#post-13458600)
 * [@nootkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nootkan/) Which warnings are you
   seeing? I do plan on releasing an update shortly to better explain how the auto
   preconnect hints work.

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 * Last reply from: [Sam Perrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samperrow/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-little-confused-8/#post-13458600)
 * Status: resolved