Google PageSpeed Insights updated, new metrics and recommendations!

If you tested your blog’s performance on Google PageSpeed Insights yesterday and do so again today, you might be in for a surprise with a lower score even if not one byte (letter) got changed on your site. The reason: Google updated PageSpeed Insights to Lighthouse 6, which changes the KPI’s (the lab data metrics) … Read more

Autoptimize closing in on W3 Total Cache

Fun fact; As per wordpress.org “popular plugins” ranking , Autoptimize is slowly but surely closing in on what used to be the go-to solution for Web Performance Optimization W3 Total Cache based on the “active installs” metric. Who would have thought? What a crazy ride …

Developers: don’t make Gutenberg go Badass-enberg on my frontend!

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 … Read more

WordPress, Youtube (Lyte) and the GDPR

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 … Read more

Introducing zytzagoo’s major changes for Autoptimize 2.4

[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 … Read more

Autoptimize 2.3, the Happy New Year release

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 … Read more

[heads up] Autoptimize 2.3 coming with new features, last call for testers

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 … Read more

Sucuri, TTFB and Google ranking

Sucuri writes about their pov on performance: We focus on useful metrics to optimize speed, like total time, not first byte or server response time. Whereas Neil Patel writes: When you’re in the weeds of optimizing your site speed, play smart. Instead of trying hard to push down your document complete, start rendering, or fully … Read more

How to make Autoptimize (even) faster

Less blogposts here lately, mostly because I’m doing custom Autoptimize-development for a partner (more on that later) and because I get a lot of support-questions on the wordpress.org support forums (with approx. between 1500-2000 downloads/ weekday that is to be expected). One of the more interesting questions I got there was about Autoptimize being slow … Read more