Title: Initial minify extremely slow
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Initial minify extremely slow

 *  [Bike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bike/)
 * (@bike)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-minify-extremely-slow/)
 * Hi, thanks for the great plugin.
 * On repeat loads of pages (from the same device), it works well, and the pages
   load in about 2 seconds.
 * But every initial page load takes 15 seconds longer, which is caused by the BWPminifying
   of the files (as seen on the timeline of GTMetrix).
 * I have combined 20 files per BWPM file.
 * Is this a bug? I run a private server with 8gb RAM. Is there a way to have this
   initial minify go faster?
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Bike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bike/)
 * (@bike)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-minify-extremely-slow/#post-5395583)
 * Ps: changing it to 10 or even 5 files did not make much difference, initial minifying
   is extremely slow.
 * On a connected note: I read your recommendations, but could not figure out how
   to actually create a Cronjob (whether in WP or on teh server) that randomly (
   pre)loads pages?
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Khang Minh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oddoneout/)
 * (@oddoneout)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-minify-extremely-slow/#post-5395668)
 * I think there’s a bottleneck in the files you want to minify, just one file can
   cause a lot of issue.
 * So, try excluding certain files from minifying to see if it gets faster (set 
   cache age to 0 and flush cache to make sure we’re testing without using cache),
   perhaps try 5 files at one time.
 * There are some cron job plugins for WP, but you can setup one one your server,
   just search for “<OS name> cron job” and there should be a lot of howtos that
   you can follow.

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