Asset Optimization Doesn’t Work

Resolved northcutt
(@northcutt)

3 years, 10 months ago
Whole issue is in the title.

Manual asset optimization is turned on. Every last script presently set to combine + minify (if not already). Stylesheets too. See:

https://www.evernote.com/l/ANrqUPoUjR5D2YLaeIifLGAViQAeSZ-aois

View source in incongito. A couple minified hummingbird files are generated but nothing is combined:

https://www.evernote.com/l/ANreBvegA7tPPK4_G-3aH2FT0r1rgjV2At8

Additionally, nothing is set to force to the footer, yet that’s where everything has been moved. All scripts are enqueued with $in_footer set to “false”.

I enabled the error log in settings and no errors:

https://roi.fyi/wp-content/wphb-logs/minify-debug.log

The feature simply does not work. It’s just not combining.

There are other issues aside from combining. It’s not seeing my enqueued script files that don’t end in “.js” (the Google Tag Manager for GA and the datatables script with an @version at the end).

https://www.evernote.com/l/ANpWHwGf0QpKG6OYi8tLuhIbYwgPb2uByrc

Tooltip states says (falsely) that there’s no valid URL for these scripts.

I’m growing a bit dubious whether this feature actually ever does what it states as it’s not even close on anything and there are no errors given.
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Plugin Support Patrick – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudevsupport12)

3 years, 10 months ago

Hi @northcutt

I hope you are doing well.

I can see the plugin is combining the files:

https://monosnap.com/file/jueGz3Iy8F4Rrbyf2KuE6rXUSyTEgd

It won’t combine everything and create a single file, but combine the group of common files so it won’t return errors on your styles/javascript.

The plugin also combines the files when WordPress call it, a cached page can cause a delay in the combining.

I can see you are using Cloudflare.

Can you please try the following steps?

– Enable Cloudflare on development mode
– Disable Hummingbird > Caching > Preload if you have it enabled
– Remove Query Strings Hummingbird > Advanced Tools
– Use the plugin heath settings in Hummingbird > Advanced Tools > Plugin health
– Re-check the Assets in the Hummibgird Assets Optimization
– Access the front end using a different browser and mobile, and navigate between some pages to ensure WordPress call all scripts using wp_enqeue_script/style.

Let us know the result you got.
Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Thread Starter northcutt
(@northcutt)

3 years, 9 months ago

Hey Patrick,

Thanks… closing the loop on this… I went ahead and tried all of that. No effect on any of those solutions.

Cloudflare is a non-issue, currently used for DNS only (no proxy).

I was able partially resolve by changing how I enqueue scripts… turns out I wasn’t using best practice with hooks in functions.php.

Based on your reply and reading up, it sounds like the feature just doesn’t work as advertised… while it implies that it’s combining everything, much just doesn’t get combined no matter what?

Can confirm that at least a handful of scripts are combined… so assuming at this point that this is just the best we’re going to get.

Plugin Support Patrick – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudevsupport12)

3 years, 9 months ago

Hi @northcutt

I hope you are doing well.

Let me explain a bit more about how it will work.

We can’t move everything to the footer for example in case the plugin would combine one file that depends on a different file in a wrong sequence it would cause some conflicts in your style and JavaScript, so the plugin is able to identify common tags and combine those files in smaller files giving you to have more control what is moved or not to the footer without creating errors.

All scripts and files should be minified and combined, but the number of Files inside of the same combined version depends on common files.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudev-support2)

3 years, 8 months ago

Hello @northcutt ,

We haven’t heard from you for some time now, so it looks like you don’t have any more questions for us.

Feel free to re-open this ticket if needed.

Kind regards
Kasia

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