Exploding disk usage

That’s a known issue with unique inline JS- or CSS-strings in each page thaikolja, that can only be solved on your end. See “My cache is getting huge, doesn’t Autoptimize purge the cache?” in the FAQ and this blogpost with more info.

Hope this helps,
frank

Hi,

I have the same issue, every day I get email messages from my hosting provider, complaining that my website is using too much space, everyday i can delete the caching. This is not normally!

Non-code users don’t understand how to fix this problems. I have a running webshop and I even don’t have time to investigate on this issue…. I have to make money with my webshop, not only investigating…. I my opinion is it the developers advantage to let their plugin work properly and not the user of the plugin…..

But I am going to deactivate this plugin, before my hosting provider is going to make troubles, and is going to lock my account, than I have more problems…..

With Kind Regards,

Gaston
Computer Shop Online
https://www.computershop-online.nl

Hi Gaston;
The developer (that would be me) can’t fix this, the user (you) has to configure Autoptimize to exclude ever-changing inline JS/ CSS from being aggregated.

If you can’t do that, for one reason or another, you could try with the “search only in head” function for both CSS and JS. If the dynamic is not in the HTML head-section (which is likely, but not sure), that would fix the problem.

Happy configuring! ??
frank

Hi Frank, thanks for your quick response. You could fix this by running some basic checks every now and then. I mean, even heavy websites certainly won’t have several hundret or even thousand files in their cache directory. Why not counting the amount of files in the directory and – if it’s too big – display at least a small notice on the Dashboard? It’d haved saved me a lot of time and hassle if I knew from the beginning what was going on.

that (checking & warning) actually is not a bad idea thaikolja, I’ll add it to my wish-list ??

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your response, I had installed and activated the autoptimize plugin again now, i had a very bad speed of my website without the autoptimize plugin. On Google Pagespeed I had a score of 29! So very very bad.

I have now checked the options “search only in head” on the JS and CSS. I am going to check if the cache size is now not going to be so huge, and i will let you know.

With kind regards,

Gaston
https://www.computershop-online.nl