Unable to bring the best out of AO…

5. is most important one actually, don’t you have wp super cache active yet?

1. for CSS you would paste the entire content of the autoptimized CSS in that critical CSS generator.

2. did you explicitely exclude

jquery.js in wp-includes, jquery-migrate.min.js, revolution slider’s /jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

from optimization?

3. has to be solved by webserver config, here’s info on how to do that for Apache for example

4. if you get (1) working, AO css delivery will be fixed.

hope this helps,
frank

2. No, I did not explicitly exclude anything. But the “Exclude scripts from Autoptimize:”-option comes preset out of the box with the following files/phrases/words:

s_sid,smowtion_size,sc_project,WAU_,wau_add,comment-form-quicktags,edToolbar,ch_client,seal.js,.php,jquery

Notice the last word in the exclusion list above, ie ‘jquery‘. Don’t you think that’s responsible for all filename and filepaths containing the word ‘jquery’ being explicitly excluded beforehand and not autoptimixed? Please advise on what to do with this preset exclusion list and especially the word ‘jquery’ there.

1. Entire content from where? All the autoptimized css related source code/content from the public facing page (the href links basically), or all the autoptimized css codes inside the files themselves which the hrefs in the source code of the public facing page only refers to? I tried the former, and got this result:

/*
This is a blank CSS file.

————————-

None of your CSS matched anything on ‘https://tsalawchamber.org/’
– Make sure your URL and CSS are correct.
*/

5. I gave ‘wp super cache’ a try then removed it. It was creating too much problem for me without improving anything. Initially my server response time was 2.5 seconds. But after setting up AO, it came down to 1.5 – even with the problems stated above. Then I installed WSC, but it failed to decrease the response time, but gave me a lot of headache and errors. The plugin author wasn’t available for any clarification. So, I think I will stick with AO only for now and optimize it a bit more if you help me, and then perhaps try HyperCache.

Regards.

regarding exclusions; “.php,jquery” are not part of the default exclusions. .php-files are always excluded, excluding jquery may be needed, but try without (and if it doesn’t work without, try with jquery.js instead).

concerning above the fold CSS; you to need copy/ paste the contents of the autoptimized CSS-file, indeed inside those files.

and finally (but most importantly); doesn’t really matter which page caching plugin you use, but you really need one to bring down your server response time. if WPSC doesn’t work, give hypercache or zencache of cachify or … (there’s a lot of them, really) a try. but you need this, really, AO can’t help bring your initial page load time down.

frank

Thanks for all your help, frank. Just one final query a bit off topic: I noticed that the security plugin I am using – “Wordfence” – has a cache feature called ‘falcon engine‘. Do I need any additional cache plugin if I turn this on? This doesn’t seem to have rich options like other standalone cache plugins.

haven’t used it myself, but there are autoptimize users who use falcon engine, so you could give that one a try?

frank