So although I am taking things rather slowly, I am in fact still working on Power-Ups for Autoptimize, focusing on the one most people were asking for; critical CSS. The Critical CSS Power-Up will allow one to add “above the fold”-CSS for specific pages or types of pages.
The first screenshot shows the main screen (as a tab in Autoptimize), listing the pages for which Critical CSS is to be applied:
The second screenshot shows the “edit”-modal (which is almost the same when adding new rules) where you can choose what rule to create (based on URL or on WordPress Conditional Tag), the actual string from the URL or Conditional Tag and a textarea to copy/ paste the critical CSS:
The next step will be to contact people who already expressed interest in beta-testing Power-Ups, getting feedback from them to improve and hopefully make “Autoptimize Critical Css” available somewhere in Q3 2016 (but no promises, off course).
optimizing matters
Crunching 2015’s numbers
So this was 2015 in numbers:
- blog;
- I wrote 107 blogposts, 41 ourTubes and only 8 in Dutch
- 211 comments were added
- Getting 98258 pageviews (up from 2014 (90K) but still significantly below 2013 (122K))
- Most popular posts:
- 5 tips to tackle problems with iframes might be an oldie, but it remains the most popular post with 20280 pageviews
- Requests for pages concerning Autoptimize combined totaled 17505 pageviews
- Quick tip: disabling WordPress author pages was the most popular 2015 article with 1767 pageviews
My WordPress plugins:- wp-youtube-lyte: pushed out 3 minor and 1 major release, getting 40264 downloads pushing the total to 250545 and having +10000 active installs
- wp-donottrack: no releases for this one (except for some small readme.txt changes),
downloaded 2355 times bringing the total to 14364 and +2000 active installs. - autoptimize: 2 minor and 1 major release, downloaded 265299 times this year, bringing the total to 506930 and +100000 active installs
That was 2015. For 2016 my main goal is to work on Optimizing Matters.