Minify worked, not combine

  • Based on my page speed load times being long, I downloaded this and used it to implement recommendations made by Pingdom and Google Insights.

    Compressing/minifying some CSS files seemed to work (but did not significantly improve speed).

    Combining CSS files and JS files (identified by Pingdom) did not work well. I could not find some, and after combining, portions of my website were messed up or would not load (fortunately, I just restored to older version). I am not sure if mncombine was the issue or Pingdom’s advice.

    With lack of Mncombine explanations or documentation, this is not for beginners like me.

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  • Plugin Author mneil

    (@mneil)

    I’m sorry you had issues with the plugin. All the plugin does is concatenate files and optionally compress them. I understand that there is a lack of documentation and that I’ve given users fine grained control which they may not understand how to wield. Unfortunately, what the plugin cannot do is fix poorly written javascript or account for every asynchronously loaded dependency. (although most async loading will work!)

    If the combining did not work it is definitely due to one of those issues. And, this is why the plugin allows you to select each file individually for combining and/or compressing. It is up to the user to figure out which script or scripts are breaking when combined and then remove them from the list. In most cases combining all scripts will just work. However, improperly terminated javascript, when compressed and sometimes when uncompressed, will fail or break other scripts when they are combined. I have not figured out a way to explain to users how to debug this on their own. Basic usage of any of the browsers developer tools and console must be known to figure this out.

    But, in most cases, it just works. I’m sorry yours was not the case.

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