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Hello,

Thanks for the quick reply. Considering Guest optimization – What does Guest Mode do when only that is turned ON (on its own)? In your docs I see that Guest Optimization ON means maximum optimization will be in use which includes U/CCSS and everything.

Another side note from mobile usage and potential replicate of the issue: Turn on CSS caching & optimization, turn on guest mode & optimization. When these are IN USE and files are created for one particular (eg home) page, when I visit my site from a different browser from within a private (no cache, no log, no b. history) tab, my site loads for around 80%, I can see its above the fold content and even scroll, but eventually it will reload/refresh itself and load up fully the second time only. As per your docs, if Guest Mode is ON, it would load other content via AJAX calls, but I cannot verify if that’s the case. Instead this weird page refreshing is happening.

LS plugin version: v4.5.0.1

And another thing to mention: Under current plugin settings, there is no option to “Load CSS Asynch” and to PREVENT your cron from AUTO PULLING. Afaik there are images and articles that there were settings for this in previous versions. How may I work around this if I would like to have each page/url’s critical CSS generated on first users visits instead of the automated cron worker?

Currently the crawler is in use, so I consider there are no other options to improve initial server response time, but thanks for mentioning.

Hi there @qtwrk ,

Never mind, I completely disabled this CCSS option as it takes too long for me. There are a few problems with this as of 1) I dunno after what time it will regenerate itself but assume until content is changed/deleted/refreshed, it will stay as is 2) It takes plenty of time even with paid sub to quic.cloud to optimize the pages. Eg. if my site would have 2000+ products with more and more pages, it would take a lot of time. Also, part of the product catalog is dynamically updated each day & week so this option is useless in this case. 3) I tried both UCSS and CCSS combined, it even turned out worse in PSI and GTMetrix scores, so I assume (but will contact theme dev) my theme is coded well enough.

Note: when I had CCSS enabled, initial server response time was about 1 sec or even more on mobile. Now it seems more responsive with less “waiting” on the blank mobile page to do something. So I’m OK with the CSS cahcing options disabled, but I appreciate your help and guidelines you mentioned.

Generally speaking, I would maybe consider enabling guest optimization.. If I have the above two CSS caching options disabled, what would guest optimization do if I enable it? What is your best suggestion to reduce initial server response time?

I’ve crawled all optimization tips to reduce css/js code, optimize & size image in the best formats and sizes, decrease DOM element being used, even Elementor’s output optimizer & improvement features are on with the least plugin in use.

Where is a documention for such set up? As per your first responses, I can verify CCSS task is not in “cron list” which I got from running:

SELECT *
FROM <code>wp_options</code>
WHERE <code>option_name</code> LIKE '%cron%'

inside my phpmyadmin database SQL query.

Regarding the second statement, you mean I should disable wp-cron inside my wp-config.php, and then go to cPanel and set up a custom cron for the domain? Why would it work? The least time a cron would run in this way is every 1 minute, I cannot lower it anymore.

I have no knowledge of wget nor curl to swap from php, any docs is much appreciated.

Summary: my site says: URL list in CCSS queue waiting for cron ( 3 ). I do not know which or how many pages’ CCSS have been generated meanwhile I was away, but for sure there is no CCSS task in wp_options table scheduled.

Update: meanwhile searching then writing this post in 30 minutes it generated 5 CCSS out of the 477 total in the queue.

Images uploaded to OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aj9Ddckmlw5a6S6bUuWRXwKsiyc5?e=0k0BUK