Title: Removing Autoptimize
Last modified: June 19, 2020

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# Removing Autoptimize

 *  Resolved [voisd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voisd/)
 * (@voisd)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-autoptimize/)
 * I’ve been having issues with my hosting – my CPU has been sporadically and randomly
   been maxing out at 100%.
 * Looking through my resource usage snapshots most contain a GET call with a duration
   of between 6-10 seconds.
 * The calls are to:
 * /wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_single_ followed by a long string
   of varying characters with a .css extention.
 * I have now deleted the autoptimize directory from /wp-content/cache and also 
   double checked that there ins’t a autoptimize direct in /wp-content/plugins/
 * Is there any chance there are any other db reminiscences that need removing to
   ensure no further GET calls are generated?

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-autoptimize/#post-13011939)
 * Those are static files (.css) that are served directly by your webserver (created
   once, served many times) and as such are unlikely to cause CPU-issues 🙂
 * They are likely CSS-files that have been excluded from being aggregated (likely
   theme/ pagebuilder CSS stored in `wp-content/uploads` or `wp-content/cache`) 
   and are minified by AO. You can disable that by disabling the “also minify excluded
   CSS/ JS”-option.
 * If you (want to) remove(d) Autoptimize deactivate and uninstall it from the WordPress
   plugins page, it will clean things up when doing so. The only thing you might
   still need to do is clear any page cache(s) you might have.
 * hope this helps,
    frank

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 * Last reply from: [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-autoptimize/#post-13011939)
 * Status: resolved