Asset Cleanup not making much difference in page speed

  • Hi,

    I downloaded the Asset Cleanup plugin yesterday to speed up my site. I ran a speed report on https://gtmetrix.com which showed a page size of 1.83MB and 142 requests on loading. I spent the day unloading all the JS and CSS files that weren’t being used on each page and then cleared the cache. My page size is now 1.76MB with 132 requests (not a massive difference considering I spent most of my day unloading) and the list under recommendations for “Defer parsing of JavaScript” has increased massively. This doesn’t make sense to me. Am I doing something wrong?

    Any help much appreciated.
    Michelle

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  • Plugin Author Gabe Livan

    (@gabelivan)

    @dufeuit After checking your website, it looks like loads of requests are from Google (Ads, Maps, Fonts). You can consider lazy loading Google Maps for instance (Asset CleanUp doesn’t yet offer this option) as the map is showing up to the bottom of the page and not all the people will see it.

    You should see a page speed difference in loading if you unloaded render-blocking CSS/JS as this is what delays the first content paint. As you said, the “Defer parsing of JavaScript” has increased and it would make a difference for user experience, even though the score is not the one you expected. The main reason of the low score is the external HTTP requests such as Google Maps (non render-blocking fortunately), but it shouldn’t affect the user experience because it loads asynchronously.

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