BWP-Minify breaks CSS

  • Resolved pcgs51

    (@pcgs51)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    The site in question is hosted @ WPEngine with a Premium (dedicated server) account with MaxCDN activated.
    Theme: Genesis with the Epik child theme.

    In an attempt to optimize I copied the live site to a new WP install at WPEngine (not in staging) to make edits, test etc. My test site is here: http://spencerinst3.wpengine.com

    However when BWP-Minify is activated PageSpeed does not see the stylesheets for mobile or desktop views. The previews of the site show text only and no styling at all. But the PageSpeed score nicely improves but I have no stylesheets. Please see screenshot links below.

    In addition, PageSpeed does not recognize the site as mobile friendly— which it is. I see a comment on the Mobile friendly test saying that the URL is being blocked by robots.txt. Puzzled by that.

    Image of PageSpeed Mobile results
    Image of PageSpeed Desktop results

    When I installed BWP Minify I pretty much only use default settings. However, I did set up the CDN.

    I have been flushing the cache in the plugin and on the server and CDN but nothing helps.

    A couple of days ago I installed BWP Minify on another site for the same client in their WPEngine account + MaxCDN and it works fine. But this site isn’t working properly.

    I have a few more sites to optimize. All with similar setups. I hope you can help. Thanks.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/bwp-minify/

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  • Plugin Author Khang Minh

    (@oddoneout)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I guess that you’re enabling the “friendly minify url” feature, and that feature is known to cause issue on WPEngine’s host. I’m working with WPEngine to resolve this.

    Thread Starter pcgs51

    (@pcgs51)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you so much Khang for your speedy reply!

    Unfortunately I’ve tried it on and off. Currently the “friendly minify url” is currently set to without.

    I called WPEngine last night and they could find nothing on their servers or in the MaxCDN account.

    Plugin Author Khang Minh

    (@oddoneout)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Weird, I’ve just tried running your site (http://spencerinst3.wpengine.com/) through pagespeed and it’s looking good to me, no missing stylesheets, and mobile-optimized. Your site is lightning fast as well.

    Thread Starter pcgs51

    (@pcgs51)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    The site itself works fine but the PageSpeed test displays the issues I reported. If Google thinks the style sheets are broken– we fail the mobile friendly test and will be penalized for poor SEO.

    Sadly it still isn’t working for me with FF, Chrome, or iOS. WPEngine support sees my same issue too. 🙁

    Thread Starter pcgs51

    (@pcgs51)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Last night it was suggested that I apply a proper domain to the account instead of using only a temporary WPE URL.

    I tried that just now but it didn’t help. Not sure why your tests look fine. Perhaps it has to do with being in another timezone?

    Thread Starter pcgs51

    (@pcgs51)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I have great news!

    This may also help anyone else out there hosted with WPEngine and using Better WordPress Minify. I made yet one more call and Zach at WPEngine found the issue.

    If you run into the same issue that I first reported contact WPEngine to set the “Redirect Bots” to OFF.

    Apparently this is a setting that customers do not have access to but they can certainly change it for you.

    Thanks for your plugin and your help Khang!

    Plugin Author Khang Minh

    (@oddoneout)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    That seems to be a different issue, but I’m glad that you got it working!

    Will write a new FAQ entry about this, thanks.

    luisten

    (@luisten)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Khang,

    I’ve spent hours looking at this same issue and Priscilla’s solution is actually the right one. The problem is that when WPEngine detects that a bot is trying to access the combined CSS assets, it redirects to the homepage. This means that when the Google crawler tries to read the minified CSS the server returns the full HTML for the homepage and therefore everything looks messed up.

    By disabling Redirect Bots the Google crawler is able to successfully reach and read the file.

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