Remove unused CSS and JavaScript and Reduce execution time

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    The unused CSS/JS is being reported as being Autoptimize’s, but AO merely aggregates all the CSS/ JS provided by your theme & plugins, so if you (really) want to tackle “remove unused CSS/JS” then you should look into your theme & plugins (you might be able to get some improvement using e.g. “plugin organizer” to only allow plugins to work on specific pages). Moreover the unused CSS/ JS will likely be different for different pages (or parts of your site), so that would lead to different autoptimized CSS/JS-files being loaded on different pages.

    Same for “execution time”; if you have a lot of JS, AO will combine it into as little number of files possible, but the JS in the end will still need to be parsed and executed, which AO cannot help with. The only option is to use less JS-heavy themes & plugins.

    hope this clarifies,
    frank

    Thread Starter Keith a.k.a. K j A M

    (@kjam)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    That’s fine. After configuring and figuring out what needed to be disabled in WP Fastest Cache the major issues disappeared. These are minor.

    Right now, I’m resizing, optimizing and converting images to webp. Once done, I’ll clean out unneeded files to get everything on the server lean.

    I already score like 96 in GT Metrix but Google Page speed often asks for the impossible. Nevertheless, adding your plugin has had a profound effect on my Google results.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    you’re welcome KjAM, feel free to leave a review of the plugin and support here! 🙂

    frank

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