Request Minify Guide

That is what I use and you cannot just enable it with default settings, as it break jquery, Layerslider, icon list animations, progressbar sliders, and a whole slew of other stuff. Please do ask- You guys could just take a screenshot of the BWP Minify settings panel and what you have for the script order in heading, footer, etc.

I spoke with Kriesi, and he only uses the default minify setup with better wordpress minify. For whatever reason, that plugin is malfunctioning with Woocommerce, and the minified URL’s are not working- which causes all JS to fail.

Today, I switched to manual W3Total Cache and added in all of my scripts. I then moved jQuery to the head, and moved all of Woocommerce to after the body… and this works. Still not great page speed insights, but at least it has stopped screaming at me about blocking js.

Here is a screenshot of my script order. Please note that there are a couple of scripts which are added in from addons, such as AddThis and LayerSlider. If you are using this SS for reference, you can build yourself a great starting list by going to Minify, turning it off of auto to manual, then clicking the help wizard at the top of the page. Make sure all other Minify is disabled. It will pull out all of your scripts in a pretty good order, and after than you can tune as you need to.

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Thanks- that is what I am using :)

That beta version fixes the HTTPS problem with the caching URL, and since my site is on HTTPS.

I have been doing SERIOUS testing on this, like 40 hours total and I have come to a few conclusions. First, I had too many elements on my home page, and no matter what it was going to load slow. I have a layerslider and each of the images is 100k. I had 2 team mates, I had 2 parallax sections, I had progress bars, a video, and many lists. I went through and removed half of this and the page loads quickly. My original intent was to have a semi “one-page” site, but I am fine with making more pages for performance reasons.

I have also come to the conclusion that minify make Google PageSpeed and ySlow happy, but it slows down the actual load time for humans. I tested the load time 10 times with CSS minification on, and then 10 times with it off and I had significantly better times while it was off.

I have also come to the conclusion that minifying jQuery is just not going to work. Period. Perhaps it is an addon I use (there are admittedly a lot), but something breaks jQuery. and forget asyncronously loading any js- even if I do not minify jQuery and async the rest, the built in theme jQuery breaks 50% of the time. I did 20 tests with minify setup with the exact script order as your theme has and it loaded perfectly 8 of the times, jQuery conflict the other 12.

With all of this said though, I am still getting a A 92% B 89% on GTmetrix. And even though my PageSpeed score is far lowwer, I have tested the theme on both mobile and desktop clients on various internet connections and the site loads fine. I think at this point I need to stop wasting time worrying about the render blocking js/css messages from PageSpeed.

Thanks for all of your help/work over multiple threads, this is still the top theme I have used and I very much appreciate your support staff’s hard work!