Uncompressed, Uncached JavaScript & CSS

  • driver49

    (@driver49)


    2 years ago

    I am bringing this site back from the dead, and trying to make it as accessible and crawl able as possible.

    Semrush tells me my WP installation has “2,899 issues uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files.” Also (I suspect not coincidentally) I have “2,899 issues with uncached JavaScript and CSS files.”

    Can this be addressed with the right plugin?

    I have a couple of plugins already that address ‘JavaScript’:

    Async JavaScript
    Autoptimize
    Flying Scripts

    …as prescribed by a tutor I am following…. but while the plugins are activated, it’s not clear that they are ‘enabled’ or configured properly …

    … or if either of them offers the solution to this compression issue.

    Where do I even start?

    –PS

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • it looks like *something” (a security plugin? cloudflare?) is blocking the PHP from being accessed, so you’ll have to re-enable the “serve as static files” driver49

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    I thought it might be something like that… since I did set up Clouflare, yes.

    So in the Misc Options, I should put the check box back in

    Save aggregated script/css as static files?
    < > By default files saved are static css/js, uncheck this option if your webserver doesn’t properly handle the compression and expiry.

    Funny how nobody tells you these things (and, yeah, I know, I have a crap ton to learn).

    I’ll wait to hear back again before saving that setting, and then run another Audit and let you know how that goes.

    Thanks,

    –PS

    indeed re-enable this option:

    Save aggregated script/css as static files?

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    Great, will do, and will report.

    Thanks

    –PS

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    I just did another audit, and while I still have a lot of “errors” to sort out, it actually appears that NONE of them are “issues with broken internal JavaScript and CSS files.”

    I wish the rest of this site-resurrection was that easy!

    Thanks,

    –PS

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