Title: Multiple autoptimze CSS versions Last modified: May 11, 2021 --- # Multiple autoptimze CSS versions * Resolved [Danny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quering/) * (@quering) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/) * Hi! * First of all: great plugin! On my website the autoptimize renders multiple CSS files. Based on multiple versions. Not every page is affected, but many are. Of course this takes extra loading time.. Most pages has 10 different CSS files. * `…css/autoptimize_single_1acc6d0….css?ver=4.7.2 1,5 KiB 480 ms * …css/autoptimize_single_7383ec5….css?ver=4.7.2 18,7 KiB 1.080 ms * …css/autoptimize_single_76e1214….css?ver=5.4.1 480 ms * …css/autoptimize_single_1cbcc9e….css?ver=5.2.2 3,0 KiB 630 ms * …css/autoptimize_single_456663a….css?ver=5.2.2 180 ms …css/autoptimize_single_7892d73…. css?ver=5.2.2 * Etcetera.. * As you can see MANY. How and why this is happening? Thanks a lot in advance. * Danny Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14425812) * Autoptimize by default excludes CSS-files in `wp-content/uploads` and `wp-content/ cache` from being aggregated, it is _very_ likely you have pagebuilder that is“ dumping” page-specific CSS in there. You can try removing the exclusion, but keep an eye on your cache size as those page-specific CSS can bust the cache. * hope this clarifies, frank * Thread Starter [Danny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quering/) * (@quering) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14425828) * No, it excludes that CSS cache folder. But all files (the ?ver=4.7.2) do contain that wp-content/cache.. See below. How is this possible? * [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/?output_format=md){ mywebsite}.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_single_1acc6d05dce5567e977de5bb00610c80. css?ver=4.7.2 * [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/?output_format=md){ mywebsite}.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_single_bae547b7cc7cc4f8d4cc8afa3108c5e4. css?ver=5.7.1 * Etctera. Thanks a lot in advance. * Danny * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14425901) * No, wp-content/cache is also where AO stores it’s own files Danny 🙂 * If you can share your site’s URL I can have a look at what the original files are (and where they are located)? * Thread Starter [Danny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quering/) * (@quering) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14425919) * Yes of course, thanks! Here you can see some examples: * [https://liberi.nl/diarree-door-stress/](https://liberi.nl/diarree-door-stress/) [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fliberi.nl%2Fdiarree-door-stress%2F&tab=mobile&hl=nl](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fliberi.nl%2Fdiarree-door-stress%2F&tab=mobile&hl=nl) * [https://liberi.nl/werkwijze/](https://liberi.nl/werkwijze/) [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fliberi.nl%2Fwerkwijze%2F&hl=nl](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fliberi.nl%2Fwerkwijze%2F&hl=nl) * I think there are a hundred of pages affected by the multiple css versions. Thanks a lot in advance! * Danny * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14425957) * You don’t seem to have “aggregate CSS” on Danny, in that case Autoptimize limits itself to minifying CSS that is not minified yet (based on filename), but the CSS is still loaded the same manner, including the different version strings as generated by the plugins that enqueued the CSS. * So if you want less files downloaded and want to get rid of those version-strings, give “aggregate CSS” a try? * Thread Starter [Danny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quering/) * (@quering) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14426867) * Oh wow, I wasn’t aware of the fact that it was unchecked. Thanks for the tip! * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14426962) * you’re welcome, feel free to [leave a review of the plugin and support here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/#new-post)! 🙂 Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Multiple autoptimze CSS versions’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/autoptimize/assets/icon-256X256.png?rev=2211608) * [Autoptimize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * Last activity: [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-autoptimze-css-versions/#post-14426962) * Status: resolved