Installed AutOptimize, Page Speed Slows

  • Resolved Lisa2001

    (@lisalamagna)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    I installed Autoptimized and checked CSS + Javascript, tried that. Then tried checking HTML + CSS + Javacript.

    Both times, the site speed went from slow to horrendous. From 66/100 to 33/100 on Google Speed Test.

    Staging site I’m working on is here: http://b84.5f6.myftpupload.com/

    I use Impreza Theme with Visual Composer + Ultimate Add-Ons (for VC).
    In the support forum, I stumbled across a conflict between Ultimate Add-Ons and Autoptimize. Following the advice, I turned off the “optimize CSS/Javascript” options in Ultimate, and re-activated them in Autoptimize.

    I’m pretty much a power user, not one to play around with CSS, files, etc. Can’t figure this out, doesn’t work for me.

    Any ideas?

    Much appreciated and have a good day.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/

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  • Plugin Author Frank Goossens

    (@futtta)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Lisa;
    What is of interest is not the page speed score as such (which is merely a quantification of how well you follow best practices, not of “real” performance), but the actual guidelines/ warnings visible when using AO vs when not using it. Could you shed some light on the (main) differences there?

    frank

    Thread Starter Lisa2001

    (@lisalamagna)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Excellent point and thank you. The site was not rendering/loading at all, even after 20 seconds.

    I uninstalled and re-installed Autoptimize. Then, I chose (checked) only basic settings, not advanced settings.

    And poof, everything works works fine. I could not replicate the problem.

    ?? a mystery to me.

    Google PageSpeed shows 77/100 with these errors::

    Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
    Your page has 2 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
    These are:

    http://b84.5f6.myftpupload.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_c8bcad0c82948f5a734ea8b2a14c1248.css

    and

    http://fonts.googleapis.com/….
    (And my understanding is that Autoptimize can not optimize fonts).

    No errors in inspect element/console.

    Plugin Author Frank Goossens

    (@futtta)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Great it works Lisa.

    Regarding render-blocking CSS; you could always try to “inline all CSS” (easy) or go for the more complex “inline & defer” (better). Both are explained in the FAQ.

    Regarding fonts; you could try the “remove google fonts” options, if you’re not too fond of fonts? 😉 An alternative could be the google web font optmizer-plugin.

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