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I thought it might be something like that… since I did set up Clouflare, yes.

So in the Misc Options, I should put the check box back in

Save aggregated script/css as static files?
< > By default files saved are static css/js, uncheck this option if your webserver doesn’t properly handle the compression and expiry.

Funny how nobody tells you these things (and, yeah, I know, I have a crap ton to learn).

I’ll wait to hear back again before saving that setting, and then run another Audit and let you know how that goes.

Thanks,

–PS

Is this thread still active? I guess I’ll find out.

Semrush ran another Audit over this past weekend.

I now have “916 issues with broken internal JavaScript and CSS files”

The first one looks like this:

https://www.ttbrown.com/wp/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/autoptimize_single_6c547e477c9dbf6b05a358fbf47b7a0d.php?ver=3.9.3

…and the rest look like that but its different numbers in front of the .php?

I’ve asked Semrush what’s going on, waiting for a response, so I’m asking here too in the meantime.

Did I do something wrong here?

Should I take this to the Autoptimize user forums?

One step forward, two steps back…

<*sigh*

–PS

After I changed that setting, the top of my Plugins panel says

‘It looks like your site might not have page caching which is a must-have for performance. If you are sure you have a page cache, you can close this notice, but when in doubt check with your host if they offer this or install a page caching plugin like for example WP Super Cache, KeyCDN Cache Enabler, …’

It seems that everything I do… there is something else I have to do (these are called “thingdos.”

What do those plugins do that Autoptimize doesn’t do?

–PS

I wonder who is working today…?

I don’t see a “serve as static files” option.

I do see

‘Save aggregated script/css as static files?’

…and since that is the only use of the word ‘static’ under that tab, I unchecked that one.

There will be more, perhaps over the weekend or early next week.

Thanks,

–PS

I’m a little lost now on what has been done and what else needs to be done.

My Host informed me that there is “no cost associated with the PHP-FPM+mpm_event or http2 changes.” So I asked him to go ahead and implement those.

A while later I was advised:

===== Configuration After PHP-FPM Changes =====

Domains using each version of PHP:
---
3 ea-php74
11 ea-php81
===
Domains using PHP-FPM: 14
===
Current PHP handler configuration:
---
DEFAULT PHP: ea-php74
ea-php74 SAPI: cgi
ea-php80 SAPI: cgi
ea-php81 SAPI: cgi
===
Current Apache Configuration:
---
mpm_event_module (shared)
http2_module (shared)

===
Sites running open_basedir: 14

– – – –

…but sadly I have no idea what a word of that means.

I would like to continue configuring Autoptimize, though. Remember the link you sent in your first reply to me here was broken, so if there’s stuff I can figure out from that please resend the link.

I think LiteSpeed (whatever it is) is out of the question because that was going to be $36/mo.

Are you familiar with Cloudflare? That’s the next thing I am going to look into.

I have over 100 things – out of date posts, mostly – that I need to fix before I run another Audit w Semrush … maybe over the weekend.

Thanks again, and Happy Special Thursday in November Day.

–P

Here is the reply from my host:

– – – – –

There are a few ways to compress your JS and CSS. You can use a plugin for example:
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https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2018/03/21/using-the-lscache-plugin-without-litespeed-server/
---

We also offer LiteSpeed Web Server licenses, which provides best-in-class caching via LSCache and a host of other features including various forms of page compression.
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https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2021/03/29/litespeed-web-server-v6-0/
---

CloudFlare is a service that sits in between the public internet and your website. They essentially "intercept" traffic to your site (with your consent, of course) and serve visitors a cached copy of the site from their own servers whenever possible. This reduces load on your server and can improve delivery to visitors. Since it receives content before giving it to your visitors, it also has the ability to minify CSS and JavaScript, compress pages, and so on.

Your server is currently configured using PHP-FPM and Apache's Worker MPM. We can switch you over to the Event MPM for added performance. http2 can also be installed.

– – – – – –

Care to weigh in on any of that?

Thanks,

–PS

The report is in…

First, re: the host questions, I have a query in to the (Knownhost) with some other input and will let you know when I hear back.

As for the setting changed and the Audit run, the total number of ‘Warnings’ has gone down (from ~7,500 to ~7,000) so that’s progress, but re: the Compression I still see:

2,709 issues with uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files
2,709 issues with uncached JavaScript and CSS files

387 pages don’t have meta descriptions
387 uncompressed pages

…so I guess there is still more to do, huh?

–PS

Thank you! for that speedy reply…

I have done as you suggest and will run an audit and report the results when they come in.

The site does not appear to have blown up so… that’s a good thing.

In the meantime, after saving the settings I see this atop my Plugins page:

“It looks like your site might not have page caching which is a must-have for performance. If you are sure you have a page cache, you can close this notice, but when in doubt check with your host if they offer this or install a page caching plugin like for example WP Super Cache, KeyCDN Cache Enabler, …”

Care to weigh in on that?

Thanks,

–PS

Thanks all who replied… especially gratifying to see the AutOptimize guys… very cool.

You are correct… It had yet to dawn on me that just ‘activating’ the plugin was not enough, that it needs to be ‘setup’, too.

Duh.

So I’m clicking those boxes now…

When I put the check mark in “Optimize JavaScript Code?”, the other boxes light up with these default settings:

In the first tab: [JS, CSS & HTML]
In the first panel: (JavaScript Options)

<Aggregate JS-files?> is not checked.
<Do not aggregate but defer?> is checked
<Also defer inline JS?> is checked

The panel (CSS Options)
I put the check in <Aggregate CSS-files?>
…but none of the other options are checked.

The panel (HTML Options)
I put the check in <Optimize HTML Code?>
…but none of the other options are checked.

The next panel (CDN Options)
wants <CDN Base URL>.
in this case, would I enter < //cdn.ttbrown.com >?

The (Cache Info) panel doesn’t seem to have any options,

And the last panel, (Misc Options)
everything is checked.

How ’bout I stop there. I have not clicked either “Save Changes” or “Save Changes and Empty Cache” at the bottom of the page.

I’m in no hurry, I’ll wait till I see a response here before I pull that trigger.

You might also advise re: the [Images] [CriticalCSS] [Extra] and [Optimize More!] tabs.

Also please check this URL (above)
You can also check this article to help you get the optimal setting for the plugin
— the page linked above didn’t open for me.

Thanks,

–PS

?????♂?

Thanks?

–PS

I might have just answered my own question.

It occurs to me that once a Page is generated, I can save it locally and then ftp it to replace the old .html files, like this:

https://farnovision.com/chronicles/tfc-part04_22.html

That is a WP-generated Page standing alone as an HTML doc in the same folder. I added the _22 to the file name, but once I remove that, the new file would take the place of the old one.

That might not be an elegant solution but it’s not a whole lot more work than I expect via any other approach.

–PS

Google instructions tend to border on the arcane > impenetrable, but thanks for that link, I’ve opened the page and will look at it.

–P

Nice work setting up a filter!

I appreciate that very much. I’ve been on such a crash course over the past couple of weeks that my head is spinning, so I value the encouragement.

I guess we’re good with the rest.

Thanks,

–PS

Yes, that is what I did, create a filter “at Analytics level.”

So I still need to be clear – somehow – that it’s working. From what I gather you’re telling me here, that has nothing to do with that ‘opt-out’ snippet I’m seeing in the code, right? That’s just something I am seeing because I’m also logged in.

Does that snippet appear (delivered to) all users, and just ignored in my case because I’m logged in?

I’d still like some verification (which I got excited I was getting from the opt-out snippet) that the IP filter is working. I’m only getting a handful of hits to this site each day. It would be genuinely exciting to know that they’re to all me.

Thanks,

–PS

Thank you Adam.

Just so I’m clear: I am only seeing the opt out tag b/c I’m visiting the site a) while I’m logged into the dashboard in another tab in the same browser window AND b) I’ve told Google to ignore my specific IP address?

Is that right?

So anybody else – you, for example – visiting the site outside of those two parameters should show up in my Analytics as a unique visitor… right?

If that’s all correct, kindly confirm for me and we’l be done here.

Thanks,

–PS