Hi drazon!
All of the features of the ABTF plugin will remain free and a lot of extra free options will be added. The new plugin will be fully compatible with the ABTF plugin. It will be a complete free solution for website performance in relation to SEO.
We’ve discovered that the Above The Fold plugin is a good base for a plugin that intends to achieve the best possible result in HTTP performance. The new plugin will be completely redone, however, it will maintain the features and innovations in the ABTF plugin because they were already heading in the right direction.
The main advantage of the new (extra) premium features will be that the optimization level will go a large step beyond what is possible even for big websites with dedicated development teams, automatically. The new plugin will be able to automatically deliver a performance result that is much better than our website performance engineers are able to deliver manually using the ABTF plugin, including a Google PageSpeed 100 score for unlimited pages.
The new plugin will literally contain thousands of configuration options to enable fine-tuning of website performance.
The new plugin is expected to be ready by March or April 2017.
If you have additional questions, please post your request at Github:
https://github.com/optimalisatie/above-the-fold-optimization/issues
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