Title: noaa-weather.css Optimization & HTTPS
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# noaa-weather.css Optimization & HTTPS

 *  Resolved [crsouser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crsouser/)
 * (@crsouser)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noaa-weathercss-optimization-https/)
 * Hi I have been running some benchmarks and other scoring tools against my sites
   and the CSS file included in this plug-in is coming up on multiple test tools
   as something either reducing page load time, reducing ranking scores, or adding
   a caveat to my HTTPS vs. a nice unqualified HTTPS padlock in the browser.
 * I was hoping you could take a look at the following findings and try to address
   some of them in the next update. A lot of it seems like it could become N/A if
   it didn’t need a custom CSS and it could be overridden and forced to use the 
   websites defined plug-in. I’ve seen this option in several other plug-ins.
 * A lot of the steps I followed were covered in this article I found:
    [http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-analyze-your-wordpress-installations-performance–wp-26472](http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-analyze-your-wordpress-installations-performance–wp-26472)
 * Tools used:
    Google ScoreCard P3 Profiler Chrome & Firefox Inspector modes
 * Though a lot of the specifics below are from Google Score Card
    Optimize CSS 
   Delivery [http://website.org/…/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1](http://website.org/…/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1)
 * Compressing resources with gzip or deflate can reduce the number of bytes sent
   over the network.
    Compressing [http://website.org/…/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1](http://website.org/…/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1)
   could save 1.9KiB (68% reduction).
 * Compacting CSS code can save many bytes of data and speed up download and parse
   times.
    Minify CSS for the following resources to reduce their size by 1.5KiB(
   54% reduction).
 * Minifying [http://website.org/…/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1](http://website.org/…/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1)
   could save 1.5KiB (54% reduction).
 * Even if the rest of my page is HTTPS, this is the only plug-in that attempts 
   to load HTTP; you may need to unhard code HTTP somewhere as
    browsers by default
   block the content. [http://website.org/wp-content/plugins/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1&#8243](http://website.org/wp-content/plugins/noaa-weather/noaa-weather.css?ver=3.8.1&#8243);
 * There have also been comments abut the images still could be compressed a bit
   more.
 * Thanks for the plug-in I appreciate your efforts!
 * Christopher
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/noaa-weather/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/noaa-weather/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tim Berneman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tberneman/)
 * (@tberneman)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noaa-weathercss-optimization-https/#post-4759517)
 * The css file is there for people to format the plugins output for some themes
   where it may not look good “out of the box”. There are plugins for WordPress 
   that will minify and combine files to reduce the page load time.
 * I will investigate “forced to use the websites defined plug-in” and possibly 
   registering the css with “https” instead of “http”. If I specify “https” and 
   it falls back to “http” if necessary that may work.

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## Tags

 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/performance/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tim Berneman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tberneman/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noaa-weathercss-optimization-https/#post-4759517)
 * Status: resolved