It’s all about speed! I mean, you want your visitors to stick around, enjoying your content instead of waiting for stuff to download, no? And I bet you would love Google to consider your site quick, now that speed has been confirmed to have an impact on search ranking? “High Performance web sites”-guru Steve Souders […]
Over the past couple of months, since the release of WordPress 5.0 which includes Gutenberg, the new JavaScript-based block editor, I have seen many sites loading a significant amount of extra JavaScript from wp-includes/js/dist on the frontend due to plugins doing it wrong. So dear plugin-developer-friends; when adding Gutenberg blocks please differentiate between editor access […]
WP YouTube Lyte users might have received the following mail from Google/ YouTube: This is to inform you that we noticed your project(s) has not accessed or used the YouTube Data API Service in the past 60 days. Please note, if your project(s) remains inactive for another 30 days from the date of this email […]
So you (vaguely) know about the GDPR I’m sure. German netizens seem ahead of the curve, as I’ve been mainly getting questions about Autoptimize and WP YouTube Lyte from that part of Europe. It even looks like the German implementation of the GDPR is pretty strict, with people removing externally hosted resources (like Google Fonts […]
[UPDATE 29/03/2018: Autoptimize 2.4 can now be downloaded from https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/archive/beta.zip and will automatically update so ensure all new functionality and fixes are applied] TL;DR Autoptimize 2.4 will be a major change. Tomaš Trkulja (aka zytzagoo) has cleaned up and modernized the code significantly, making it easier to read and maintain, switched to the latest and […]
I just released Autoptimize 2.3.0, the Happy New Year release. As described here earlier it has some significant extra optimizations to help you improve your site’s performance even more for 2018: new: optimize Google fonts with “combine & link” and “combine and load async” (with webload.js), intelligently preconnecting to Google’s domains to limit performance impact […]
With the last release almost 6 months in the past, it’s high time for a new Autoptimize release. And what a release that will be my friends! Here are the most important features/ improvements (most new options are on a separate tab, “Extra” to keep things organized as seen in the screenshot); Google fonts; remove […]