Asset Optimization not working after update to WP 5.5

  • Resolved tokey5943

    (@tokey5943)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi, I’ve tried to update WP to 5.5 three times now in the last few weeks, but every time Hummingbird’s asset optimization stops working correctly and I end up restoring the last back-up.

    Here’s what I do:
    – update only WP to 5.5 (no plugin updates)
    – re-check files and clear cache
    – clear browser cache
    – reload the page

    The site works and the JS optimization seems to work as well, but PageSpeed Insights now shows a lot of CSS files as render-blocking which it didn’t show before the update, because I combined them and moved them to the footer. When I look into PageSpeed Insights right now it looks like Hummingbird combined the CSS files for the mobile page correctly, but didn’t move them to the footer, because now the combined CSS file (uploads/hummingbird-assets/…) shows up as render-blocking. For the desktop page it didn’t even combine the files.

    Also, before the update Hummingbird showed 124 assets on the asset optimization page, now it showed 70 right after the re-check, 78 a few minutes later and now 83. CSS and JS files of some plugins don’t show up at all.

    I will check with my hosting provider if it’s an issue of not enough RAM capacity for the optimizations to be performed, but I have 2 GB RAM and SSD storage, so I don’t really think so.

    Any help is appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter tokey5943

    (@tokey5943)

    Update: Somehow I got it to combine the files correctly for both versions – desktop and mobile, but the combined CSS file still shows up as render-blocking which it didn’t do before the update to WP 5.5.

    Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    Hello @tokey5943

    I hope you’re well today and thank you for your question!

    Could you please check:

    – if you are using any other “asset optimization” (JS and/or CSS) options/plugins on the site currently? (some themes have them built-in) and if so disable them?

    – is there any server-side cache and/or CDN such as CloudFlare? if yes, they might have to be cleared as well

    With any updates (of plugins, themes and WordPress core) it’s often necessary to adjust Asset Optimization settings due to changes that those updates bring. It might not be enough to just “re-check” files but it might also be necessary to make actual adjustments to which assets are set to be moved to footer/loaded after page is loaded and which are combined.

    The behavior that you described often is a result of such adjustments not being made or dynamically created assets not being regenerated (e.g. if theme or builder creates CSS files) or already optimized assets still being served from server-side cache.

    Could you double-check that and update us here, please?

    Kind regards,
    Adam

    Hi,
    similar problem here. I’ve compressed and combined some css files, now i have three hummingbird-assets css files and page speed says, they are blocking page rendering ??
    I don’t use any other optimization tool, server side cache or cloudflare.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by webreisen.
    Plugin Support Nithin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport11)

    Hi @webreisen,

    I do understand the issue on the thread sounds similar, however, it would be better to troubleshoot your issue separately via a new thread.

    Could you please open a new thread with us along with the link to your website so that our support could check further and guide you regarding what might be the case for your website?

    Link to open a new thread:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/hummingbird-performance/#new-topic-0

    Kind Regards,
    Nithin

    Plugin Support Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support6)

    Hello there @tokey5943

    It’s been a while since we’ve heard back from you so I’m going to mark this topic as resolved. You can still post back any updates and we can continue.

    Take care,
    Dimitris

    Thread Starter tokey5943

    (@tokey5943)

    Hi, thanks for your help! Update: the problem somehow solved itself. The combined CSS files do not show up as render-blocking anymore. Before that I also compared the waterfall charts from GTmetrix from before and after the updates and the position and loading time of the combined CSS files were the same. I can’t see why they were flagged as render-blocking. It seems like the real problem are some new Google Fonts and some JS files which weren’t there before. I guess they come from the WP update or other plugin updates. The size of my homepage went from 1.32 MB to 1.75 MB and instead of 57 requests there are 82 now, but that has nothing to do with Hummingbird.

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