Title: Best setting, autoptimize and async javascript
Last modified: October 13, 2016

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# Best setting, autoptimize and async javascript

 *  [caronaj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caronaj/)
 * (@caronaj)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-setting-autoptimize-and-async-javascript/)
 * Hello,
    I wanted to know what are the advantages to using javascript async with
   autoptimize? I can not understand if they do the same thing or not. It seems 
   to me that async javascript offer a more detailed management. What is the best
   way to configure the two plugins?
 * Thank you

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-setting-autoptimize-and-async-javascript/#post-8292128)
 * if you optimize your JS (without excluding a lot from JS optimization), the advantage
   is probably minor. if however you (have to) exclude multiple JS files from AO
   optimzation, JS async could help limit the performance impact of those.
 * hope this clarifies,
    frank

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