W3TC not working after site migration

  • Hello,

    I redesigned my company’s website (3space.us) on another domain we happened to own and used Godaddy’s WordPress migration tool to move the site to our primary domain when I finished. On the development domain W3TC was working fine and our PageSpeed scores were in the 60-70 range. After migrating, we’re scoring in the 30’s to 40’s and most of W3TC’s features don’t seem to be working. I’ve tried uninstalling and re-installing the plugin. I even went in after uninstalling and manually deleted anything left over. So far nothing has worked.

    Compression
    It looks like my CSS and JS files aren’t being compressed with gzip, but according to this I do have compression enabled. I definitely have CSS and JS compression enabled through the plugin’s settings and I’ve tried unenabling/re-enabling it as well. It might be worth mentioning that all the files have a version specified, ie /file.js?ver=5.5.0.

    Browser Caching
    According to PageSpeed, none of my images have an Expires header, and according to YSlow neither do the files mentioned above that aren’t being compressed. Again, I’ve made sure it’s enabled in the settings and tried toggling it off and on again.

    Minify
    I actually wasn’t able to get minify working prior to migration and I planned on addressing it after I got everything moved over. It is currently enabled and is actually working well on my JS files, but still not working on any of my CSS files.

    Render-Blocking
    I never got this working, either, I assume it’s a product of minifying. PageSpeed lists all of the CSS and JS files that aren’t being compressed as render-blocking. In my minify settings,I’ve moved the JS to “before </body>” and I’m using non-blocking async.

    I’ve spent a few days searching and trying potential solutions, but nothing has worked and I’m out of ideas. If anyone has any insight as to how I can get the plugin working again, I would really appreciate it.

    Thanks

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  • Hey 3spacellc,

    EXACTLY the same happened to me.
    After i cloned my site to another hosting provider i got exactly the same symptoms you’ve just described. Then, i tried one more hosting and extracted the same backup file (carrying my site) and most of the errors were gone.
    even the gzip (HTTP compression) errors were gone.

    i am still facing some errors that i had also before, even though W3 was configured correctly (i hope)

    I have no clear conclusion but these are the results i got.

    Did either of you check to make sure your website has mod_expires or mod_deflate (gzip) installed?

    Are you running any other optimization plugins? The only plugins you need for speed optimization should be these.

    W3TC
    Rocket Lazy Load
    EWWW Image Optimizer
    Auto Optimize (if W3TC minify breaks scripts or styles)

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