Title: Feature Request: static page/html cache
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# Feature Request: static page/html cache
* [if3a](https://wordpress.org/support/users/if3a/)
* (@if3a)
* [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-static-pagehtml-cache/)
* Before version 2.0, every website I tried to put Autoptimize on had to be thoroughly
tested to ensure the website was not broken and performance was acceptable. In
most cases I would spend a lot of time picking and removing scripts but all of
these problems disappeared after 2.0. You have given us a completely free plugin
that does pretty much everything I could want it to do, while other developers
would charge a yearly fee for. I’m truly grateful.
* To avoid hitting PHP, decrease load and increase capacity, I have to use static
HTML caching. As you probably already know, static HTML cache can allow a 1 hit
per second shared hosting account to serve hundreds of hits per second. The only
2 reliable plugins that do static caching best is W3 Total Cache (which is bloated)
and WP Super Cache (which doesn’t work with Apache 2.4). Sometimes WP Super Cache
randomly decides to clear cache even though the timeouts are set to 0 (infinite).
HyperCache (your favourite) unfortunately uses PHP (the bottleneck of most servers)
to serve files.
* Is there room some where down the line for you to add static caching to Autoptimize?
* On a side note:
* There’s a problem where if Autoptimize is enabled the site will time out. These
are sites running on VPS’s with timeouts set for 10+ minutes. They work on some
sites and won’t work on others. It’s most likely because the theme and/or plugins
are heavy but I wouldn’t know where to begin. The only option I have is to not
use Autoptimize on them.
* There’s one other problem (or nuisance, or feature request?) and hope I explain
this properly)… say if we set autoptimize to combine all javascripts, it will
generate 1 file and that will work without problems. Then you come across some
pages that are specific to a plugin, like a contact form or map plugin which
includes an extra resource which will then cause autoptimise to generate a completely
separate cache file. Usually I visit the common types (a page, a post, archive
page, specialised pages etc) and compare the most common resources and then simply
set Autoptimize to skip/exclude files that aren’t loaded in every single part
of the site. It can take a lot of manual work and I don’t mind putting the effort
in, it’s just that on sites that use visual editors for example (js_composer),
it can be extremely time consuming to go through hundreds of pages and then compare
the resources they load. Is there anyway for you to build a feature/option that
will scan for the common scripts and automatically exclude the non-common ones?
It’s a really big ask so I’m hoping to just put it in your mind and see what
happens in a few years.
* Anyway that’s all I wanted to say, many thanks for a great plugin (I’ve been
using it since 0.4 or 0.5!).
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/)
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* Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* (@futtta)
* [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-static-pagehtml-cache/#post-7121571)
* > Is there room some where down the line for you to add static caching to Autoptimize?
* not in the nearby future, but who knows, one day (this actually is on my wishlist)…
* > WP Super Cache (which doesn’t work with Apache 2.4). Sometimes WP Super Cache
> randomly decides to clear cache even though the timeouts are set to 0 (infinite).
* did not know that. how specifically does wpsc not work with apache 2.4 (apart
from the nuisance that can be wpsc’s .htaccess)?
* > There’s a problem where if Autoptimize is enabled the site will time out. […]
> it can be extremely time consuming to go through hundreds of pages and then
> compare the resources they load [to exclude them from optimization]
* for both use cases you could hook into the whitelist filters (autoptimize_filter_css_whitelist
and autoptimize_filter_js_whitelist) to tell AO what to optimize, in which case
everything not in those whitelists will not be optimized?
* but nice to know you’re a long-time user (long before I took over from turl)!
🙂
* Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* (@futtta)
* [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-static-pagehtml-cache/#post-7121573)
* just saw [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-apache-24?replies=2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-apache-24?replies=2),
I know understand how wpsc doens’t work with apache … donccha can be a hard man
to reach indeed.
* frank
* Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* (@futtta)
* [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-static-pagehtml-cache/#post-7121811)
* [@if3a](https://wordpress.org/support/users/if3a/); [2.0.1 will be out soon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/heads-up-autoptimize-201-coming-soon?replies=1),
do give that a spin if you have some time 🙂
* frank
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