Title: Uncompressed, Uncached JavaScript & CSS
Last modified: November 23, 2022

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# Uncompressed, Uncached JavaScript & CSS

 *  [driver49](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driver49/)
 * (@driver49)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncompressed-uncached-javascript-css/)
 * I am bringing this site back from the dead, and trying to make it as accessible
   and crawl able as possible.
 * Semrush tells me my WP installation has “2,899 issues uncompressed JavaScript
   and CSS files.” Also (I suspect not coincidentally) I have “2,899 issues with
   uncached JavaScript and CSS files.”
 * Can this be addressed with the right plugin?
 * I have a couple of plugins already that address ‘JavaScript’:
 * Async JavaScript
    Autoptimize Flying Scripts
 * …as prescribed by a tutor I am following…. but while the plugins are activated,
   it’s not clear that they are ‘enabled’ or configured properly …
 * … or if either of them offers the solution to this compression issue.
 * Where do I even start?
 * –PS
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Funcompressed-uncached-javascript-css%2Fpage%2F2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncompressed-uncached-javascript-css/page/2/#post-16248580)
 * it looks like *something” (a security plugin? cloudflare?) is blocking the PHP
   from being accessed, so you’ll have to re-enable the “serve as static files” 
   driver49
 *  Thread Starter [driver49](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driver49/)
 * (@driver49)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncompressed-uncached-javascript-css/page/2/#post-16248602)
 * I thought it might be something like that… since I did set up Clouflare, yes.
 * So in the Misc Options, I should put the check box back in
 * Save aggregated script/css as static files?
    < > By default files saved are static
   css/js, uncheck this option if your webserver doesn’t properly handle the compression
   and expiry.
 * Funny how nobody tells you these things (and, yeah, I know, I have a crap ton
   to learn).
 * I’ll wait to hear back again before saving that setting, and then run another
   Audit and let you know how that goes.
 * Thanks,
 * –PS
 *  [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncompressed-uncached-javascript-css/page/2/#post-16249165)
 * indeed re-enable this option:
 * > Save aggregated script/css as static files?
 *  Thread Starter [driver49](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driver49/)
 * (@driver49)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncompressed-uncached-javascript-css/page/2/#post-16249176)
 * Great, will do, and will report.
 * Thanks
 * –PS
 *  Thread Starter [driver49](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driver49/)
 * (@driver49)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncompressed-uncached-javascript-css/page/2/#post-16249395)
 * I just did another audit, and while I still have a lot of “errors” to sort out,
   it actually appears that NONE of them are “issues with broken internal JavaScript
   and CSS files.”
 * I wish the rest of this site-resurrection was that easy!
 * Thanks,
 * –PS

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 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/)
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 * [javascript](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/javascript/)

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 * Last reply from: [driver49](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driver49/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncompressed-uncached-javascript-css/page/2/#post-16249395)
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