Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Minify adding strange characters
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Minify adding strange characters

 *  [broken85](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broken85/)
 * (@broken85)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-minify-adding-strange-characters/)
 * First, I’m seeing some bizarre behavior with Minify in the latest release of 
   W3TC (and maybe before that as well…). Most of the javascript files I try to 
   minify cause all of my javascript to fail on the page, rendering it very oddly,
   and occasionally replacing the entire page with a single Google ad (from the 
   Easy AdSense plugin).
 * I have removed a bunch of the javascripts from being minified, and the page works
   better, but there are JS errors in the minified files.
 * I have chosen to Combine Only while testing (because doing a full minify seems
   to make none of them work properly). IE was complaining about a script error,
   so I looked into it.
 * The following URL shows my footer file as combined by W3TC:
    [http://technologykills.com/wp-content/w3tc/min/index.php?gg=default&g=include-footer&t=js](http://technologykills.com/wp-content/w3tc/min/index.php?gg=default&g=include-footer&t=js)
 * There are three relatively simple files being minified here (in this order):
   
   1. [http://technologykills.com/wp-content/plugins/google-analyticator/external-tracking.min.js](http://technologykills.com/wp-content/plugins/google-analyticator/external-tracking.min.js)
   2. [http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js](http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js)
   3. [http://technologykills.com/index.php?ak_action=aktt_js](http://technologykills.com/index.php?ak_action=aktt_js)
 * On line 7 there is a “;28b” which does not appear in the source of any of those
   three files. Additionally, on line 37 there is a lone “0” which is not from any
   of those 3 scripts.
 * If it’s doing a Combine Only, where would this extra data be coming from?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-minify-adding-strange-characters/#post-1429494)
 * Can you submit a bug submission from the support tab of the plugin with the combined
   file attached?

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