Title: Fewer HTTP requests
Last modified: March 20, 2019

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# Fewer HTTP requests

 *  Resolved [Copiaurbietorbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copiaurbietorbi/)
 * (@copiaurbietorbi)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/)
 * Good day folks,
 * We installed the plugin and has worked well, although we are experiencing the
   famous issue of having a lot of http requests now. We checked this and it seems
   the site loads some http requests still, but loads first the one associated with
   the main home page. We don’t know why.
 * Could you give us a hand to understand this better and a way to solve it please?
 * Thank you!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffewer-http-requests%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11336013)
 * Hi [@copiaurbietorbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copiaurbietorbi/),
 * I’m not sure I understand what you are referring to. How did you measure the 
   http requests, and in what way is this related to SSL?
 * The site seems to load fine, without any mixed content.
 *  Thread Starter [Copiaurbietorbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copiaurbietorbi/)
 * (@copiaurbietorbi)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11336152)
 * Hello Rogier,
 * Thank you for getting back to us. We measured this using pingdom website and 
   it shows how our site is loading the file with http first and then with https.
 * We installed your plugin so that our website run over https, but if the conversion
   from http is made, then we don’t know why we are loading the http file first.
 * We are trying to understand how all this works. We are not too saavy yet but 
   quick learners.
 * Thank you for helping us understand this better.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11336163)
 * I think this is what you are looking for: If you enable the .htaccess redirect
   in settings/ssl, then the redirect will happen before WordPress is loaded. Nevertheless,
   if you measure with a http URL, this is the URL that will get requested first,
   then it will get redirected to https.
 *  Thread Starter [Copiaurbietorbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copiaurbietorbi/)
 * (@copiaurbietorbi)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11336281)
 * OK so we need to check our .htaccess file rules then. Thank you for your help.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11336290)
 * It’s a setting which you can enable in settings/ssl, just check the checkbox,
   save, and you’re done!
 *  Thread Starter [Copiaurbietorbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copiaurbietorbi/)
 * (@copiaurbietorbi)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11336338)
 * Hi Rogier,
 * we have the following configuration based on what we understood from this chat
   but also from what we have read:
 * Mixed content fixer -ON
    Enable WordPress 301 redirection to SSL -ON Enable 301.
   htaccess redirect -ON Enable Javascript redirection to SSL -ON Debug -ON Stop
   editing the .htaccess file -OFF Switch mixed content fixer hook -ON
 * Are these settings ok to optimize our SSL configuration?
 * Thank you for your help
 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11336574)
 * These settings are fine!
 *  Thread Starter [Copiaurbietorbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copiaurbietorbi/)
 * (@copiaurbietorbi)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fewer-http-requests/#post-11337236)
 * Ok Rogier, thank you very much for your help and support.

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