Autoptimize breaking Google Remarketing Code

As described in the FAQ you can exclude JS or CSS from aggregation/ optimization. In this case I would add “google_conversion_id, googleadservices” to the comma-seperated list of JS to exclude.

Hope this helps,
frank

Thanks Frank, I just found that in the readme but was still not sure what to add to the JS exclude list. I will try your recommendation and see if that works for me.

Thanks again.

Rich

Hi Frank, my SEO guy is still telling me its not working. Its still stripping out /* <![CDATA[ */ and this /* ]]> */ which I have been told I need.

any thoughts on how to keep those?

Sorry if these are basic questions I am still learning this stuff.

Rich

The javascript optimizer (jsmin) indeed strips out the CDATA. As far as I know, those are utterly useless (relics of a time when some browsers had difficulties script-tags when in XML (XHTML) mode). If you really want to keep the CDATA-identifiers, you could enable the “look only in head”-option (assuming the JS in question is in the body, not the head).

frank

I am waiting to hear back from google if the CDATA line is actually needed or not.

As for the fix I actually had to disable the optimize HTML code option to get those lines to remain. I thought if I told it to let the HTML comments remain that might solve it but it did not, I had to disable the HTML option altogether.

I will see what Google tells me about those lines.

Thanks for your help.

Hi there, had the same issue. Finally found the following solution by reading the FAQ : just wrap the google code within <!–noptimize–> <!–/noptimize–> tags. It tells autoptimize to ignore what is within these tags. For instance :

<!–noptimize–>
<!– Google Code for Commande passée Conversion Page –>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
/* <![CDATA[ */
var google_conversion_id = 983550975;
var google_conversion_language = “en”;
var google_conversion_format = “3”;
var google_conversion_color = “ffffff”;
var google_conversion_label = “9ZUeCIH1lVcQ_5f_1AM”;
var google_remarketing_only = false;
/* ]]> */
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”//www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js”>
</script>
<noscript>
<div style=”display:inline;”>
<img height=”1″ width=”1″ style=”border-style:none;” alt=”” src=”//www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/983550975/?label=9ZUeCIH1lVcQ_5f_1AM&guid=ON&script=0″/>
</div>
</noscript>
<!–/noptimize–>

That’s correct, nopitmize-tags will make sure everything (CDATA included) remains as is! Kudo’s to martinjerome ??

martinjerome, that was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, I guess I missed that when I was searching.