I am so close to a perfect score
Why can’t you install a plugin to do it for you? There are lots of great ones out there. You don’t have to manually minify every time a plugin is updated as the caching plugin can handle it for you.
Brent
@brent I’d rather not install a further plugin and add further overhead. The site in question is very lean and using minimal plugins. It’d be trivial for the King Composer dev guys to do this, and it’s best practice anyways.
@brent Despite my previous comment I went ahead and followed your suggestion, installing the popular Autoptimize plugin to minify and concatenate my CSS and JS files. This broke some of the functionality on my site. For example, I’m using SelectBoxIt to style dropdowns, this stopped working.
Well depending on functionality needed, minification and concentation can break things. You always have to be careful. Have you tried to mess with the placement of your scripts in Autoptimize?
Performance optimization isn’t an exact science, of course. Things can and do go wrong, and you have to adjust. However, don’t get hung up on Pagespeed scores or other “scores”. The score means virtually nothing. What matters is user experience.
I’m a huge fanatic when it comes to site performance and optimization. But getting a perfect score doesn’t always mean your site is perfectly optimized. In fact, there are times when the suggestions made using Pagespeed can HURT the way your site performs. So don’t get too stuck on the performance score.
Brent
And for the record, I AM a fan and support your request of having the King Composer files minimized by the developer. I was only making the above suggestions as an alternative until they do. I’m not saying they shouldn’t do it. I think it would be good for them to do so.
I do wonder though if they keep it this way because of their API and easier developer access? They seem to be huge supporters of developers to want to extend KC.
Brent
hi there;
I’m Autoptimize’s developer. Most (if not all) issue with things breaking can be fixed by changing AO’s settings on the admin-page. Have a look at the FAQ for info on how to proceed troubleshooting.
hope this helps,
frank
Hello,
Thank you so much guys!
Yes that is a shortcoming of mine. And surely I will do it. But not now because I am updating plugin daily to improve.
