Minify and combine results in longer page loads
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I am fiddling with a huge theme which results in pages bigger than 4MB in size.
The problem is that if I use the Optimize feature in LSCache with minify and combine, the resulting CSS and JS files are large uncompressed files. Google complains about this wildly and gives the site a low (red) score.
If I disable the Optimize feature altogether in LSC and install W3TotalCache alongside LSCache and enable Browser cache in it (which adds gzip compression to served files), I get better loading times and a good (green) score in Google (without using the minify and combine option in this plugin either).
I’m using the CDN option in LSC with 6 subdomains mirroring the main domain which keeps the unminified, unmerged css and js files at a reasonamble loading rate, which pleases google slightly.
Below are my settings:
And here is what google tells me:
To recap: the problem is that the files optimized by LSC are being served uncompressed and there is no option to control compression.
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