My guess is that you are using a plugin that is minifying html.
I was using W3TC and enabled the option to minify HTML but I have deleted that plugin. Would it “un-minify” during un-installation you think? Would minify’d HTML contribute to slow speeds?
Minifying html should actually reduce page load and increase speed due to smaller file size. If you deleted the plugin then it shouldn’t still be serving minified pages, but I don’t know enough about that plugin to say for sure. I would start disabling other plugins and see if do that removes the minification.
Thanks csloisel. If the jumbled html is the result of minify and is normal then I am okay with it (especially if it reduced page load speed). Just an observation I had while trying to pinpoint why my site is so slow.
I am still on the hunt for how to speed up my site, but that’s another topic. Appreciate the help.
For reference, Autoptimize was causing the jumbled code. I was able to tell immediately after disabling it. I re-enabled it as it does a great job at reducing page load time. At least now we know why.
you can disable the “optimize HTML” just the option permanently or you can load a page like this “http://your.url/?ao_noptimize=1” to disable autoptimize just for that request.
regarding slowness; hope you replaced W3TC with another page caching mechanism (wp super cache or other)?
frank (autoptimize developer)
