minify kills load time yet boosts pagespeed score

  • Resolved kleinstukjedan

    (@kleinstukjedan)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve recently started a website and soon after the installing of w3 I noticed that my page loading time was veryyyy long (16,9 sec), even though page score is quite ok (88%/GT Metrix).

    The waterfall on GT metrix shows a lot of (separately loaded?) minified JS and CSS files that take a lot of loading time. I then tried to switch of Minify and this brought loading time to 3.3 sec, however, page size and number of requests went up and pagespeed score is then 30% ( It is now activated again but see below the details of results).

    Is Minify suppose to increase page load time like this? And if not, how can I solve this?

    Thanks for your help!

    Myrthe, a WordPress and W3 newbie ??

    PageSpeed Score
    (30%)
    YSlow Score
    (52%)
    Page Details
    Fully Loaded Time
    3.1s
    Total Page Size
    3.10MB
    Requests
    139

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @kleinstukjedan
    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
    I’ve tested your website on Gtmetrix and here are the results:https://gtmetrix.com/reports/paperlovestories.nl/S8ucfpcD
    This means that you need to enable gzip compression and set expires header in Browser Cache settings.
    Is Browser Cache enabled in Performance>General settings? If not, enable it, save all settings and go to Performance>Browser Cache and enable toe following in General sub-box:
    Set expires header
    Set cache control header
    Set entity tag (ETag)
    Enable HTTP (gzip) compression
    Save all settings and purge the cache
    Gzip compression will solve the Compression issue and with the settings above enabled you will also resolve the Leverage browser caching issue.
    Thank you!

    Thread Starter kleinstukjedan

    (@kleinstukjedan)

    Dear Marko,

    Thank you so much for your response and advice.

    I know the GT Metrix report suggests to fix compression and browser cache, however, this is the case with and without the Minify settings. What I’m trying to understand is why, with Minify switched on, the Fully loaded time is up to 17 seconds, while the page score, size and the number of request clearly benefit from Minify. What do you think?

    Never the less, it would be great to fix the compression and caching issue as well. Especially for mobile it seems a big issue and I’ve tried to fixed that already without any results. All the settings you suggest were already enabled.

    Just double checked to be absolutely sure:
    – Browser cache is/was enabled in general settings
    – all the suggested boxes in the browser cache section are checked as well (in addition, last-modified header and w3 total cache header are also enabled, is that an issue?)

    There is also all kinds of stuff added to .htcaccess to set compression/caching, see below, hope I’m not sharing anything secret. Is it possible perhaps hosting service settings overrule these settings or such?

    Hope to hear from you again.

    Regards,

    Myrthe

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    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @kleinstukjedan

    Thank you for the information. It appears that you have some rules in your .htaccess file that are causing some conflict. Added manually or by some other plugin that should be handling expires and gzip. If you have such a plugins please disable them to avoid conflict. Make a backup of your .htaccess file, delete everything and add just the following rules:

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</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch “\.(bmp|class|doc|docx|eot|exe|ico|json|mdb|webm|mpp|otf|_otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|svg|svgz|swf|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|_ttf|wav|wri|woff|woff2|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|BMP|CLASS|DOC|DOCX|EOT|EXE|ICO|JSON|MDB|WEBM|MPP|OTF|_OTF|ODB|ODC|ODF|ODG|ODP|ODS|ODT|OGG|PDF|POT|PPS|PPT|PPTX|SVG|SVGZ|SWF|TIF|TIFF|TTF|TTC|_TTF|WAV|WRI|WOFF|WOFF2|XLA|XLS|XLSX|XLT|XLW)$”>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset Last-Modified
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<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Referrer-Policy “no-referrer-when-downgrade”
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteRule .* – [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
RewriteRule .* – [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =https [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteRule .* – [E=W3TC_ENC:_gzip]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} w3tc_preview [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [E=W3TC_PREVIEW:_preview]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =””
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
RewriteCond “%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}” -f
RewriteRule .* “/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}” [L]
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# dynamisch aangemaakt en zouden enkel aangepast mogen worden via WordPress filters.
# Elke wijziging aan deze richtlijnen tussen deze markeringen worden overschreven.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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# END WordPress

    This will ensure that you only have your core WP rules and W3 Total Cache rules in your .htaccess file.
    Thank you!

    Thread Starter kleinstukjedan

    (@kleinstukjedan)

    Dear Marko,

    Thank you for looking in to it. I’ve switched my .htcaccess rules for yours but it seems to make no difference… It looks like it only has problems with the compression and browser caching of the minified files, see below.. Maybe that is the reason that switching on/off minify impacts page score and page loading time that much?

    What do you think?

    Kind regards,

    Myrthe

    Enable compression for the following resources to reduce their transfer size by 1.9MiB (77% reduction).

    Compressing https://paperlovestories.nl/wp-content/cache/minify/3861b.css could save 659.5KiB (85% reduction).
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    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @kleinstukjedan

    It appears that your website is on nginx+apache and in your environment, those files are handled by nginx while PHP by apache. i.e. apache rules don’t have a chance to act.
    What you need to do is to add rules to nginx.conf in the root of your server. If you are not comfortable doing this by yourself, please reach out to your host for assistance.
    Thank you!

    Thread Starter kleinstukjedan

    (@kleinstukjedan)

    Dear Marko,

    thank you for your advise. My Host added some things and the compression seems to be solved. However browser caching still seems an issue. Any idea what to add to nginx.conf to solve that?

    Kind regards,

    Myrthe

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @kleinstukjedan

    nginx rules for gzipping js and CSS files need to be added.
    Something like this:

    gzip on;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_types    text/plain application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascript text/xml text/css;
gzip_vary on;

    Please note that this rule is for js and CSS files so if you already have these rules you need to add gzip_types

    Thank you!

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