Albert Peschar

Hi Gulshan,

Thanks for your message and for trying out PhastPress.

We added font-display: swap because Google suggested it. When using font-display: auto, many browsers will not show the text until the font loads.

See: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/02/font-display

It’s possible that Google’s recommendations changed in the meantime. Which tool or resource are you using that suggests using font-display: auto?

At the moment there is no hook that would allow you to change the font-display setting that PhastPress generates.

–Albert

Hi suprim,

Sorry about that. The file was accidentally deleted.

It’s online again at the same link: https://peschar.net/s/yQVWIuOuI4ThfRZfkKJa/

Should you have any other issues setting up PhastPress, I’m happy to help.

Have a succesful 2019!

–Albert

Hyper Cache should be OK, although I recommend using Automattic’s (the creator of WordPress) plugin WP Super Cache.

Autoptimize should not cause problems, but you do not need it if you are using PhastPress. Autoptimize does nothing that PhastPress doesn’t do better, and to keep things simple, I would recommend disabling it. However, if you want to use Autoptimize instead, try disabling all the options below HTML, CSS & JS in PhastPress.

PB SEO Friendly Images and Regenerate Thumbnails should be fine.

Good luck!

–Albert

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by Albert Peschar.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by Albert Peschar.

Hi Valentine,

1. PhastPress takes care of the resizing dynamically and creates the requested size the moment it is first requested—and only when it is requested?

Correct. Image processing happens on the fly, as soon as an image is used.

2. PhastPress uses lossless optimization techniques and image quality will be exactly the same before and after the optimization?

The optimization is not entirely lossless, but there should be no detectable difference. Ie, there is some quality loss, but you can’t see it. (JPEG images are compressed at 80% quality, or converted to WebP at 80% quality. PNGs are compressed with pngquant with reduces the amount of colours in the image, but should not be visible for humans.)

3. With PhastPress can I go back if I’ll think the quality set is too much? The original images are not erased?

Yes. Images are not changed, due to the on-the-fly processing. So when you disable PhastPress, everything will be as it was before.

4. PhastPress will be work properly together with Regenerate Thumbnails by Alex Mills?

Yes.

Thanks for your interest in PhastPress. Good luck optimizing your site. If you have any problems, please let me know.

–Albert

Thank you for trying out PhastPress and reporting this problem. We’ve fixed this bug in the latest version, 1.10.3.

If you are happy with PhastPress on your site, I would really appreciate it if you left a review here.

–Albert

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by Albert Peschar.

Hi Alex,

I always receive the notification from our hosting provider with suggestion of disconnection to external resource for security consideration, so I do suggest that you make image optimization by local plugin.

We don’t offer this, as it’s highly dependent on server configuration and requires execution of local commands on the server that is often not allowed.

If there is no same issue at your site, I have to check my safari setting, and will let you know.

Indeed, it seems to work fine for me… Maybe there’s something weird going on with an ad-blocking extension that is triggered by the URLs we use for resources processed through PhastPress. You can try using a guest account on your Mac so that you get a clean Safari configuration.

–Albert

Hi Alex,

I found one issue affecting image optimization due to a slow connection between your hosting server and our API. This was fixed by increasing the timeouts.

As to the background images disappearing, I don’t see this at all. Which version of Safari are you using? Could you maybe try again after enabling PhastPress, and then send me a URL of the page which you tested, another screenshot, and a copy of the text you see on this URL when you visit it with your browser: https://peschar.net/ua

Thanks for your patience and your help in tracking down the issue.

–Albert

Hi Alex,

Indeed there’s an issue with Safari causing scripts and/or stylesheets to load slowly or not at all. That’s what’s causing the delays in the animation.

I’ve uploaded a new version of PhastPress (1.10.1) to your site with a workaround for this problem.

Now all should work correctly. Let me know if you experience any other issues.

–Albert

Hi Alex,

I tested your site a few times. For me, there does not seem to be a problem with the animation, and the site loads faster than without PhastPress.

I recorded a video:

https://peschar.net/s/nz02a5BeQE7LwIYzk0FJ/

There are three tests in the video:

1. First load with PhastPress
2. Second load with PhastPress
3. Load without PhastPress

I think the animation looks the same every time. Can you have a look and explain what exactly is going wrong?

–Albert

Hi Georgina,

Yup, it works now. You can check it yourself by opening the source code and looking for the following line at the bottom:

WP Fastest Cache file was created in 1.14558506012 seconds, on 05-10-18 11:48:09

If you like PhastPress, we would really appreciate it if you left a review here.

Good luck!

–Albert

Alex,

No, I would not expect any issues in combination with Redis cache.

–Albert

Hey Alex,

That’s a great question. I’ve added an entry to the FAQ:

Should I use other optimization plugins with PhastPress?

You do not need any other plugins, such as image optimization (e.g., Smush) or file minification (e.g., Autoptimize) after you install PhastPress, because PhastPress includes all necessary optimizations.

We recommend using the simple combination of PhastPress and WP Super Cache only.

So, in short, PhastPress does everything you need, except caching. If you want caching, use WP Super Cache.

Good luck!

–Albert

Hi Alex,

Thanks for trying out PhastPress.

PhastPress is not active in the backend, so those errors you’re seeing are not caused by PhastPress. They are also not serious, just missing source map files for debugging. (More info.)

We did not test test PhastPress with multisite, but I expect it to work without issue.

If your site works without trouble, and you see resources loading through phast.php, it works! You should also see some messages from PhastPress in the developer console.

You can check your results on Google PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix and compare it to your site without PhastPress.

If you like PhastPress, I would really appreciate it if you left a review here. Should you have any other issues, let me know. ??

–Albert

Marking this as resolved.

Thank you!

We found the problem. It worked in Firefox, but not in Chrome. Anyway, it is fixed now, in the latest version 1.8.5 which I have installed on your site.