Title: Plugin slows down my website
Last modified: May 1, 2020

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# Plugin slows down my website

 *  Resolved [potsandplants2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/potsandplants2020/)
 * (@potsandplants2020)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-slows-down-my-website-2/)
 * Does anyone have any experience with the plugin slowing down the website?
 * When I check the Google developers tools > sources > coverage I see that over
   1.4 milion unused bytes are used in terms of CSS and over 200k JS.
 * Also when I check my Primairily threads I do see crazy numbers pointing towards
   Asset Cleanup and also it seems to block the rendering of my site with over 2
   secs.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-slows-down-my-website-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Gabe Livan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabelivan/)
 * (@gabelivan)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-slows-down-my-website-2/#post-12766175)
 * [@potsandplants2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/potsandplants2020/) 
   I’ve checked your website and indeed, you have a large combined CSS file created
   by Asset CleanUp that is over 1.4MB. If you just combined CSS/JS files without
   unloading the useless ones first, you will end up with large combined files. 
   As you asked for combining, the plugin did that (although the files are quite
   large and combined you end up with an even larger file) and the page loads fine.
 * So, to reduce the size of this combined, there are a few things you can do. First,
   load the website with _/?nocache_ appended to it. Because of the query string,
   the combination won’t take place (e.g. plugins such as WP Rocket will also not
   trigger their cache if there are query strings in the URL unless you made an 
   exception for that) and you will be able to see each CSS file individually loading
   in the Google Coverage which the usage percentage. Please **unload the ones that
   are showing 100% for unused CSS**, except the Google Fonts ones (consider doing
   a trial & error test separately with those fonts, you might not need all of them).
   Note that in very rare cases, you can perform unloading on a file with a 100%
   unused reported percentage, but later you find it that some CSS is needed, but
   this is unlikely. Just a heads up to be careful and test the homepage properly
   on both desktop & mobile views.
 * Some of the highly unlikely files that could be stripped include:
    - /wp-content/cache/asset-cleanup/css/item
       /mmm_mega_main_menu-v1587316476-
      e1ef0ac3965978ed7aa8665975d43b8c277bd2f1.css
    - /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/packages/woocommerce-blocks/build/style.css?
      ver=2.5.14
    - /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/css/woocommerce.css?ver=4.0.1
    - /wp-content/themes/lukani/css/bootstrap.min.css?ver=4.1.0
    - /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/packages/woocommerce-blocks/build/style.css?
      ver=2.5.14
    - /wp-content/cache/asset-cleanup/css/item/fontawesome-v4.7.0-0140952c64e3f2b74ef64e050f2fe86eab6624c8.
      css
    - /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/css/woocommerce-layout.css?ver=4.0.1
    - /wp-content/cache/asset-cleanup/css/item/owl-carousel-v2.3.4-a2fa945f9ac01fa3191a950c3f2cce188f50c4ef.
      css
 * To determine the original location (so it would be easier for you) of a cached
   file, you can click on it while you’re in the coverage and you will see it at
   the top of the file as a comment (e.g. for the last one, it will be /`*! /wp-
   content/themes/lukani/css/owl.carousel.css */`)
 * Only based on my checks, I determined you can reduce that large file with around
   40%.
 * Happy testing and let me know if I can further assist you!
 *  Thread Starter [potsandplants2020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/potsandplants2020/)
 * (@potsandplants2020)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-slows-down-my-website-2/#post-12772240)
 * Hi Gabe,
 * Thank you for you answer!
    When checking again I can see that for example js_composer.
   min.css is unused for 99.3%, still this 0,7% is messing with the layout of the
   page. What would you suggest?

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