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Hi there,
I´m quite happy with the overal peformance but GTmetrix Google Page Speed report tells me that there are two main areas of possible improvement:
1. Defer parsing of JavaScript
2. Remove query strings from static resources
I´m using W3Total cache and it does a good job so far. Any ideas how I can follow the two suggestions with Enfold?
Cheers
Michael
Hi Michael,
For #1, you can use a plugin to put the javascript from the header into the footer though if its minified it really isn’t that much of a performance increase.
I’m not really sure what #2 is referring to however.
Regards,
Devin
Good question Michael. In addition how does Kreisi feel about ‘above the fold’ content? See this screenshot – whether you use W3TC or not (I do but not whilst in build phase) it’s great but I cannot get above 92 in Page Speed due to this issue. Whilst not massive it would make significant gains if this was dealt with. Every bit helps in the fight for higher rank…
I guess this is the same thing you’re referring to Michael?
**Kresi looked at a JS Minify issue in W3TC and he resolved it (fantastic response!) but as yet I have not tested to see if that has made this issue go away so forgive me if I am mistaken.**
Would like to know your thoughts Devin.
Cheers
Ed
1) Defer parsing of JavaScript is not a good idea at all because it breaks a lot of third party plugins. We won’t include such a feature in the theme because our goal is to maintain the compatibility to as many plugins as possible and to stick to the wordpress standards. Loading the jquery framework or any theme script with the defer attribute is not the best practice in this case…
2) Remove query strings from static resources – this is also the standard wordpress behavior and we won’t tweak this because we don’t want to provoke unnecessary incompatibility issues. If you want to get rid of the query strings install W3 Total Cache, minify the scripts and activate the browser cache feature. In addition the query strings make sense because if you clear the cache or if you update the files the browser should load the latest version of the scripts. Even W3TC adds a query var to the cached files to make sure that the browser reloads the files after you flushed the server cache.
Thanks for the response. I already use W3Total Cache with minification and browser caching. And that works very good. Most of the query strings come from W3TC and you are right Dude I will not try to get rid of them because they surely make sense.
My page speed currently is at 87% which is quite a good value I think.
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