Poor

I’ve spent countless hours developing this plugin and I had the best feedback and I was keen to make it even better and have been assisting people on the support area. It’s disgusting to see ratings like yours (“poor”) just because a text is written in a way you don’t like or you don’t know or don’t try to find out which assets should be removed.

If you’re joking (I still can’t believe you’re serious), it’s not funny and I would kindly ask you to remove your rating or ask some of the stuff from WordPress to do it.

I don’t think the objective of this plugin is to tell you what is used and unused, rather its to detect the styles and scripts that run on every page and allow you to stop them running (for instance if a page speed analysis shows that something is taking a long time to load and is not required). It is up to the user to know what is required and what isn’t. Maybe this will somehow be added later but its not the purpose of the plugin right now. This plugin is NEW so its to be expected that there might be some areas which could be improved. Its also FREE. It allowed me to disable an unnecessary style that was running on every page and slowing down load times – exactly what it is designed for.

To be honest I think the response of Gabe is worse that the review itself. The reviewer has a point between the lines

If you give this kind of power to the user then you need protection in place. So the missing checks is a big issue and from that point I can understand a 2 star rating. I do understand that checking for breakage is a tricky thing.

@marko, I believe you did not like the way I genuinely expressed myself, even though I wrote what I felt after I read the review (that has some spelling mistakes).

Although the reviewer has his point, it doesn’t mean the plugin deserves this rating just because one is not sure what assets should be unloaded.

People can seek the advice of a developer. It’s impossible for the plugin to “tell” what should not load as some assets that are apparently not needed, could be needed in the future etc. Each site has its own settings and way of working. Some tips can be given at most and future versions of the plugin will be easier to use by the average user.

PS: I’m new to this community (my first free plugin, so far I’ve only developed for companies) and I’m still getting used with everything here. In the future, I might have a different way of handling this type of reviews or even prevent them if possible.

I do the same. I’m just want you to understand what the reviewer is saying.

You are right if the plugin was on a place were mostly developers are like Github. In this case, it’s on a place with a lot of users who do all of it themselves. Most likely most of them will not seek advice and when something does breaks they will contact you instead.

So making it more user friendly it something to looked at. It can be done but indeed it will be hard to do and most likely impossible to do on the plugin side. So a service would be needed.

Please note that the rating is just a way to quantify someone’s experience. A bad rating does not mean a bad plugin. It meant someone had a bad experience.