Optimization Request

I was just about to post the same post about this and found yours Nils.

+1 on this feature request… at the moment it is a little inefficient and slowing page loads for me.

Thanks
A

That is quite impossible as I can’t know via PHP if there are audio players (they are just anchors pointing to an mp3 file) on the page before loading script; players are not persisted on the DB. Consider also that players could also be loaded in the page in a second time via an Ajax call and if the javascript is not loaded before they wouldn’t work. I don’t think that 50kb of scripts (cached by the browser) can slow down the page load :-).

Bye,
M

I have a similar desire. My site will have perhaps 30 pages, only one of which contains audio and will be frequently accessed. I’d rather not load the script for most users who won’t be looking at the audio-containing page.

The CFORMS II plugin has this same issue and handles it with an optional Settings field. It allows you to specify which post id’s the plugin is to be loaded for. If you don’t specify any, then it loads the script for all pages. If you specify some ids, then the script is loaded only for those pages.

Sounds good! A child theme can also be a DIY solution…

Specifying the ID of the page could be a solution… but do you really think that 40 kb of cached scripts can make the difference when the page loads? I don’t think this could be an improve…

Well it’s 3 files plus inline script.

jplayer.js = 48 kb
mb.miniplayer.js = 42 kb
miniplayer.css = 10 kb
inline script = 1 – 2 kb

overall we’re talking about 100 kb and 3 additional requests

if you ask Google pagespeed or other optimization websites / guides, this totally makes a difference

Those file are loaded the first time you get in the site, then are served by the browser cache. For the general use of this plug in the js files must be loaded on every pages; wordpress itself loads all the needed script to render its own player on all the pages even if the player is not invoked.

That’s correct, but it’s not the point. Why do people have to load the files at all, even if they may never open a page with a player?

Maybe it’s time to find another more lightweight player.