Rapidload + Autoptimize but 4.6 seconds custom css, 4.7 REST, 5.7 initial respon

  • Resolved Jonathon N

    (@imagiscapeca)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    I bought Rapidload and got it to process the most important pages.
    I emptied Autoptimize’s cache. (Not sure if that was necessary after setting up rapidload.)
    Still, 9 hours later, gtmetrix’s waterfall report shows 5.7 seconds initial server response time, 4.6 seconds custom css, and 4.7 seconds for “v2” (wp-json/wp/v2) (enabling the REST API).

    I know my custom css is big for a custom css file – 8 kb. It’s mostly due to customizing the appearance of The Events Calendar (their settings page only allows a few changes, so everything else needed to be by custom css). But 8 kb shouldn’t take 4.6 seconds. I expect there are a few conflicts and that’s where the time goes, but shouldn’t Rapidload figure out what actually gets used and eliminate the rest?

    Why is 94% of autoptimize[…].css unused? I thought rapidload was supposed to fix that. Why is 70.7% of autoptimize[…}.js unused? I thought rapidload was supposed to fix that. (On homepage. Processed by rapidload. Autoptimize cache reset, page loaded a few times between reset and measure.)

    I installed the plugin Disable REST API to selectively disable for plugins that call it. Disabling all (for unauthorized users) broke my site (“unable to establish database connection”) so I enabled plugins that seemed crucial. I did not enable The Events Calendar (“tribe”). (At first check it still works.) WP-JSON v2 still takes 4.7 seconds.

    5.7 seconds initial server response time!? How can I find if that’s my host (Bluehost; shared) or my theme (SKT Gym, updated to version released this month; after the slowness manifested) or something else?

    The backend is also crazy-making: 20 seconds to load anything. Don’t know why.


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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    Hey Jonathan;

    For server response time; ask your host to enable page caching or if they don’t offer that install a page caching plugin (e.g. KeyCDN Cache Enabler).

    For custom CSS; you seem to be using a plugin for that which serves the CSS in a dynamic file, try adding it via Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS instead (which will inline the CSS where it can be optimized by AO/ Rapidload) which will be faster.

    I don’t see the wp-json requests, but those will be hardest to improve upon, so maybe try to track down the plugin(s) adding those and checking if this can prevented somehow?

    hope this helps,

    frank

    Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    No feedback so I assume this is OK now imagiscapeca ? Feel free to follow up if you still encounter issues!

    have a nice day!
    frank

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