Disable Minify

  • Resolved constangiann

    (@constangiann)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I am currently in a continuous effort to optimize the speed of my site (especially the pagespeed insights factors). Because of that I am experimenting with many things that may cause “problems” and I have realized that my site runs quite well (on all other speed testing platforms) but I also have many unused and unnecessary css and js loading which hold me back.

    I am using W3 Total Cache since the beginning with the minify setting enabled. Yesterday during my checkups I turned off minify to see what happens and I saw some strange things which I don’t understand (I am not a programmer-just running and maintaining my simple website my own).

    At my files there are still quite a lot minify files along with the originals (for example both stylesheet.min.css and stylesheet.css exist and many more). Why do they min files still exist? Shouldn’t they be deleted if I turn off minify?

    At my Google Lighthouse test (at coverage) I see all the min files still loading on my page! Is it normal? Sorry for not being technical but I need some help to understand how things work.

    P.S. I have done all the purge caches etc

    Constantenia

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @constangiann

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to answer this.
    When W3 Total Cache minify is active, all minified files are stored in wp-content/cache/minify/ folder and the files are being served from there.
    Those files with min.css or min.js are not created by W3 Total Cache. These are the theme/plugin pre-minified files and again, not related to W3 Total Cache.
    Thanks!

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