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  • July 17, 2019 at 6:53 am #1119419
    gatehealing

    I setup those plugins per an article that Cloudflare provided. All 3 seem to do some sort of optimizing/minification/compression. Currently have Brotli enabled on Cloudflare, and Gzip enabled on W3, but I am waiting to hear if I should only use one.

    I need to know if Enfold > Performance > File Compression should be enabled, or if that will duplicate things being done by the above 3?

    Thanks!
    jon

    July 17, 2019 at 9:22 am #1119466
    Rikard

    Hey gatehealing,

    The file compression in the theme should combine CSS and JS files into one file each, the plugins you mentioned are likely to do the same, so you don’t need to activate that functionality in the plugins.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    July 17, 2019 at 7:15 pm #1119669
    gatehealing

    I don’t need to activate Gzip or Brotli at all in either plugin? Does the theme compress in the same way that W3 Total Cache and CloudFlare does?

    J

    July 18, 2019 at 5:49 am #1119777
    Rikard

    Hi,

    I can’t say exactly how those plugins work unfortunately, but since you are optimising your site for speed then I would advice you to simply check what settings work best for your site. You can check this article on advice for checking WordPress performance and page load speed.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    July 18, 2019 at 5:56 am #1119780
    gatehealing

    Thanks. I use all of those . . .that’s where I’m seeing the problem with TTFB that led me to trying to figure out what is going on. My site is too small and simple to be having a 500ms ttfb. One of the sites says that it is likely a technical issue with my site, so I think I need to look at the theme, my server and my plugins.

    J

    July 18, 2019 at 7:26 am #1119812
    Jordan Shannon

    Hi,

    You can try troubleshooting by disabling plugins to see if the issue resolves. If it does, then there may be a plugin using excessive resources.

    Best regards,
    Jordan Shannon

    July 19, 2019 at 10:33 pm #1120357
    gatehealing

    I disabled everything and the TTFB went up to over a second.

    I had already tried disabling all but W3 total cache and autoptimize, and everything except one of those, and both of those off but wp super cache on, and it was still 750ms (so the caching plugins help, but even with all other plugins off, the ttfb is nearly a second).

    Other ideas of what may be happening if it’s not plugins?

    J

    July 20, 2019 at 6:32 am #1120387
    gatehealing

    FINALLY!!!! After MONTHS of going round and round with my dang host, which everybody was saying the issue seemed to be my server, EXCEPT them . . . they kept saying “it’s the plugins,” or “it’s the theme,” or “its the CDN” . . . they finally relented and changed me to a closer server . . . BAM! My TTFB goes instantly from F to A.

    I’m nearly convinced they wanted me to purchase dedicated hosting. Maybe not, but wow, that took too long.

    I did learn a lot. Y’all were very patient as I tried to figure this out. Thank you!
    Jon

    July 20, 2019 at 12:55 pm #1120435
    Rikard

    Hi Jon,

    Great, I’m glad that you got everything working and thanks for the update and feedback. Please let us know if you should need any further help on the topic or if we can close it.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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