How to reduce HTTP requests and other beginner questions

  • Resolved phoenixblue

    (@phoenixblue)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hello. I installed WordPress a few weeks ago. I am a beginner so I do not understand all the complex language in your beginner guide..

    In Optimization tab, I enabled “CSS Minify, CSS HTTP/2 Push, JS Minify, and JS HTTP/2 Push” as a third-party website suggested. The rest are default.

    When I run my website on speed test websites, I always get a bad score. They always say “Make fewer HTTP requests” with a score of 0. How do I fix this problem with this plugin?

    Thank you.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by phoenixblue.
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  • Hi @phoenixblue

    If you use the CSS Combine and JS Combine options, you will lower the number of requests, because LiteSpeed Cache will combine these files into a smaller set of files.

    However, be aware that under HTTP/2 and QUIC (and soon HTTP/3), the number of requests doesn’t matter that much anymore.

    Tests that do give you a bad score would be YSlow as well as Pingdom for example, and neither of these testing tools is updated to take HTTP/2 into account.

    Google have written about multiplexing here under HTTP2: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/http2/#request_and_response_multiplexing

    Effectively you don’t really have to care about the number of files.

    Plugin Support lsmike

    (@lsmike)

    Hello @phoenixblue,

    I’m going to mark this topic “Resolved”, due to lack of activity.

    If you still need help, let us know and we’ll be happy to reopen the topic if necessary.

    Thanks!

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