Hi Ian;
As per the FAQ, Autoptimize might need some configuring for it to work its magic to the full extent. Once that is done, the gains in points and more importantly in download time can be very significant. If you provide me with your URL, I’d be happy to provide you with some specific tips.
have a nice weekend,
frank
Hey Frank,
thanks for the response. I did go through that mate but it caused me havoc and I had no option to disable.
The URL is http://www.bathcitysound.com
What I found is that initially it knocked out all the images on the homepage ( displayed in posts ) and those on the gallery pages. When I tweaked some more, I got the fatal errors.
As I am running W3 Cache and am aware there can be conflictions, I wasn’t going to risk things anymore.
Any observations greatly appreciated as it would be nice to get into the mid 90s in the Google speed checker and reduce load times.
thanks,
ian
OK, some pointers;
- when running autoptimize, disable other minification components (e.g. w3tc minify)
- start with just HTML & CSS optimization and check to see if that doesn’t break anything
- I see you have a lot of javascript and esp. jquery, you might need to exclude jquery
- I guess you have a lazy load thingie for your images, if your images disappear you’ll have to exclude that as well
Getting a better pagespeed score with all of this will not be easy (as you’re already using W3TC minification, which is pretty good although it might not have “inline css” which helps against the “Optimize CSS Delivery”-blues), but for important improvements you should look into reducing base page download time (do you have W3TC page caching active?), optimizing images (check out http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/) and maybe consider downloading less of those beautiful fonts?
Hope this helps,
frank
Hey Frank,
been playing with this and still no joy. Still gives a white screen when even the basic HTML box is ticked.
Yes it got the speed up but at the price of locking the site up! What I would suggest is coming up with an optimum set of settings to compliment one of the caching plugins out there? As W3 seems to be the leader, I would start with that.
If one person could come up with a remedy for all this, they could make a fortune!
Whether it performs well or not is irrelevant if it flunks out with Fatal Errors and that is all I get. Tried it on 2, fresh sites now and its a non starter.
Sorry bud and thanks for your input but its not for me.
Ian
weird … this is running on tons of sites without problems. could you copy/ paste some of the fatal errors? I would be interested to investigate this further (but I would need admin-access to one of your test-blogs ideally).
optimal settings don’t depend on the page caching plugin (with the exception of W3TC which has its own minification magic, so that’s less interesting for me anyhow, AO is ideal to be used alongside of WP Super Cache and other Hyper Caches) but on the theme & plugins used. that means that there is no one optimal configuration, but multiple ones.
frank
Hi Frank,
tell you what lets give it a go and see what happens.
I’ve just emailed you.
cheers,
ian
