google is not happy, need help with configuring the plugin settings

Hello @mohammedays

Thank you for reaching out and IU am happy to asset you with this.

First of all, I can see that some of your files are being optimized by Jetpack: https://c0.wp.com/ Those files cannot be handled by the W3 Total Cache as they are already served from the third-party Jetpack. As for the other files, the W3TC minified files can be removed as a render-blocking. Please note that those files were render-blocking before the modification.
For JS files you can choose the Embed method in Performance>Minify and select defer As for the minified CSS files, you can select the option “Eliminate render-blocking CSS by moving it to HTTP body” in Performance>Minify>CSS section, however, please note that this option is only available after upgrading to the PRe version of the plugin.
Please make sure to check this video for more details.

Thanks!

I really appreciate you answer, jetpack was causing slow loading just disabled some feature of it and I noticed a very good improvement.

So, now on my theme avada in the settings there are Enable JS Compiler (By default all the JavaScript files are combined. Disabling the JS compiler will load non-combined JavaScript files. This will have an impact on the performance of your site.) and CSS Compiling Method Select “File” mode to compile the dynamic CSS to files (a separate file will be created for each of your pages & posts inside of the uploads/fusion-styles folder), “Database” mode to cache the CSS in your database, or select “Disabled” to disable.

I notice they might be similar to what the plugin does, are the doing same work? should I turn on HTML?minifier – JS?minifier – CSS?minifier.

I appreciate if you take a look at the pic and let me know which one should not be used if they are doing the same as the plugin. Thank you for the help

@vmarko I thin the plugin is great but the configuration are not easy.

I am using clouldflare and it provides browser caching and minfying css, javascript and html which the plugin does. What should I do in this case? use both, the plugin or clouldflare alone for these?

Thank you for the help

Hello @mohammedays

Thank you for your feedback.

As for the Theme options, you can try with those options enabled or disabled. And see if you’re experiencing any issues when those options are enabled. (Referring to the CSS and JS optimizations in the theme options).
As for the Cloudflare options, using more than one solution is not recommended. Meaning if you have CSS&JS and HTML minify enabled in the Cloudflare dashboard, you should disable Minify in the W3 Total Cache and vice versa.
One thing that you should do is to use the option for Browser TTL in Cloudflare to respect the origin headers. This means letting W3TC take care of the Browser Caching.

I hope this helps!

thank you for the answer @vmarko

on clouldflare I created a page rule Cache Level:?Cache Everything like this video, does it conflict with page caching on the plugin?

video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQg_JVvQGxw

Hello @mohammedays

Thank you for your feedback.
No this does not conflict with the W3 Total Cache settings.

Thanks!

Hi boss, I set the browser cache with the plugin “keep the default” for css and js at 31536000 and Set expires header checked. for HTML and XML Set expires header unchecked and at 3600. I am just using default. and for clouldflare Browser Cache TTL set to respect the origin headers. before changing clouldflare Browser Cache TTL was 4 hours.

now after the changes, I notice clouldflare is not caching most of the request starting from the day I changed the settings. plese take a look.

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and here is the settings for the w3tc

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There must be something wrong, just the same day I changed the settings clouldflare cache for the requests and for bandwidth has declined. what should I do in this case? and please let me know how to buy you a cup coffee. Thank you.

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Please disregard the images above for the settings and take a look here this is more clear. sorry repost again. and I just want you to know that Brotli in clouldfalre is enabled.

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To any one might come to this thread, Clouldflare was not caching when I check the analytics as it is showing in the image above, this was because I did not set up the page rule correctly. I set it up the wrong way and so it was not working and pages are not being cached by clouldflare. the fix was to set up the page rule correctly so clouldflare can cache everything and it shows on the analytics that they have been cached.

For anyone might be reading this, if you have avada theme and using w3 total cache you should do the following:

Avada > performance

1- use CSS Compiling Method (File)

2- Load Media-Queries Files Asynchronously (on)

3- Enable JS Compiler

for w3tc minify

1- enable minify for HTML & XML – Inline?CSS?minification – Inline?JS?minification

2- disable minify CSS

3- disable minify js

this would be the best setting for speeding up avada, do not use minify in w3tc for css and js just use the avada’s settings.

If you need more you should defiantly get a better theme than avada.