SGO breaks Fathom Analytics

Hello @twothirty,

If the affected script is not present in the drop-down list, you may try to exclude it using one of the filters we’ve created for that purpose. More information on how to do that can be found in the official plugin documentation or in this thread:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-sg-optimizers-filters-procedure/

Best regards,
Dimo

If the affected script is not present in the drop-down list then the only way to exclude it is to add the mentioned filter manually. The filters are usually added to the functions.php file of the currently active theme.

If this is not a suitable option the alternative would be to leave the JS minification disabled and still take advantage of the rest of the features offered by our plugin.

Best regards,
Dimo

Hello @twothirty ,

Your alternative is to directly contact the developers of Fathom Analytics and have them provide you with the handler of the script.

Then, add it as explained in the article: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-sg-optimizers-filters-procedure/

Regards,
Plamen.M
Tech Support Team
SiteGround.com

Hello @twothirty,

We primarily use handlers to detect and provide an option for exclusion from our optimization.

If you don’t want to add a handler to the script, you can use the exclude by domain option, which is unavailable on the SG-Optimiser interface.

Still, we provide other options for excluding scripts from the JS optimization. You can exclude the script from JS optimization by adding the code below to a site’s active theme functions.php file:

add_filter( 'sgo_javascript_combine_excluded_external_paths', 'js_combine_exclude_external_script' );
function js_combine_exclude_external_script( $exclude_list ) {
    $exclude_list[] = 'cdn.usefathom.com';

    return $exclude_list;
}