Cache External Scripts

Description

Often when trying to optimize the Google Pagespeed score, there is one script which still causing the ‘Leverage browser caching’ rule popping up: Google’s own gtag.js and/or analytics.js file…

With this plugin you will be able to cache this file on your local server and enable browser caching for longer than 2 hours. The plugin will check every day if there is a newer version of the file to keep the cache up to date.

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Installation

Installation is very easy;

1. Upload the plugin directory cache-external-scripts to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or install it directly from the WordPress plugin directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Once the external script is cached by the plugin, it will automatically replace the url in your current Google Analytics code (meaning you can use your current Google Analytics plugin).

FAQ

I have installed the plugin, but I can’t find the Google Analytics code in the page source code

This plugin only caches the script and replaces it in your current Analytics code, containing ‘gtag.js’, ‘analytics.js’ or the older ‘ga.js’ script.
We chose not to insert the Analytics code itself because there are tons of plugins for that already, and some users require modifications in the code.

How can I check if the Analytics code is properly cached

We store the cached file in the wordpress uploads directory, in the folder called cached-scripts. If this folder doesn’t exist or is empty, please visit the settings page of the plugin to manually fetch the script.

Reviews

80

vkw72 March 7, 2020

Very Good plugin

Great job for google analytics (only)

RicaNeaga September 2, 2019

Would be great to also support facebook pixel code (at some point) ??

works like a charm!

alibt68 August 1, 2019

I was a bit concerned about this plugin and its conflict with W3, but it gets the job done perfectly! thanks guys

works very well

tonyuk123 April 15, 2019

Great little plugin, works very well could do with a few other things being cached – google maps?

best service

musa007 March 20, 2019

I love this

Ok!

sergeyua12 December 28, 2018

Ok!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

0.4

• Added support for new Google Analytics tracking code using gtag.js
• Added missing semicolon which rarely caused a JavaScript issue in certain cases when minifying source code

0.3

• Added support for new Google Analytics tracking codes using https protocol as standard
• Small bug fix where cache being checked against the wrong file

0.2

• Added support for (old) Google Analytics tracking codes using ga.js script

0.1

• Initial release