Will it work with WP fastest cache?

@copiaurbietorbi Greetings! You could technically reduce the number of HTTP requests to only one for CSS and one for JS, which will boost your GTMetrix (and other tools you’re using) page speed score considerably. However, the size of the resulting files is usually very large because of the “garbage” that is collected when the combination occurs without filtering any of the useless CSS/JS.

While GTMetrix and other tools are very good for testing a website page speed, they are not fully adjusted yet for the new HTTP/2 protocol which makes the number of HTTP requests less relevant. Here’s a post about it: https://blog.newrelic.com/engineering/http2-best-practices-web-performance/

So, the best way to boost your website speed with Asset CleanUp and WP Fastest Cache (both working well together as many users are having the plugins active in their WP installs) is to first strip the “fat” from your pages, then you can enable concatenation and minification (both plugins support this, just don’t enable the features on both plugins, like if you decide to enable CSS concatenation on Asset CleanUp, don’t also enable it on WP Fastest Cache).

Each website is unique and you have to decide which assets are useless in particular pages. Here are two video tutorials that can help you out to understand how it works:

1) After 07:21 it starts with the actual optimization, Asset CleanUp being the first tool used:

2) This one is dedicated to Asset CleanUp only:

I advise you to a backup of your website before starting the optimization and even use “Test Mode” (when changes only apply for you, good for debugging) in Asset CleanUp if you’re unsure what you’re doing to avoid breaking anything.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Gabe Livan.

Greetings Gabe!

We will look into the information provided and if we have any other questions we will reach out to you. Thank you for your help.

@copiaurbietorbi anytime, looking forward to your feedback and feel free to make feature requests like other people did in this support forum.

Hello Gabe,

Continued feedback is extremely important to us in order to remain aligned to goals, create strategies, develop service improvements, improve relationships, and much more.

As such, this is our fedback:

We tried the plugin using the information available and the videos you kindly shared; and although your plugin saved some load time, it broke our website completely.

We used different configurations considering different scenarios and still, the result was the same.

Sadly, we had to delete the plugin. We thought it was going to be the solution to our situation.

@copiaurbietorbi Thanks for sharing your feedback!

It’s enough one setting to be inappropriate and it could break the website, indeed. It can happen with many plugins, not just the combination you used.

I’m positive that if I start optimizing your website with Asset CleanUp and a caching plugin (perhaps your WP environment isn’t right for WP Fastest Cache, you never know), nothing will be broken and the speed will be significantly higher. Perhaps the .htaccess wasn’t written correctly or combine CSS/JS from both plugins were activated (this is a no-no as two of the same settings shouldn’t be active on both plugins).

I wish you had the experience you wanted, and frankly, I was expecting better news. I’d be happy if you’ll consider trying the plugin at a later date, perhaps on a different website.