So in the ever-continuing saga of learning, testing and fine-tuning your site’s settings to get the ultimate in performance you might have enjoyed the new Autoptimize filter/ setting not to lazyload the first N images to keep the impact of lazyloading on Largest Contentfull Paint down? Well, now you can take things a step further … Read more
So AVIF is a new(ish) image format that promises even better optimization then WebP and is supported in desktop Chrome & behind a preference in Firefox; go to about:config and set image.avif.enabled to true. If you are using Autoptimize to optimize your images and you want to test AVIF images, you can use below code … Read more
With Autoptimize 2.7.7 released on August the 23rd and having been pushed to all sites that were still on 2.7.0-2.7.6 by the WordPress plugins team on Aug. 30th and 31th, resulting in just under one million downloads in 8 days time, it is now the moment for a small debrief of the security issues that … Read more
Onder de indruk van Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer‘s columns over Corona in Genua las ik tijdens onze vakantie zijn magistrale “Grand Hotel Europa” over liefde, een oud hotel in volle evolutie, het avontuurlijk (en gewelddadig) leven van Carravagio, het genie van Damien Hirsh en vooral over hoe Europa beetje bij beetje een pretpark voor toeristen wordt … Read more
When cached HTML links to deleted Autoptimized CSS/ JS the page is badly broken … no more with a new (experimental) option in AO27 to use fallback CSS/ JS which I just committed on the beta branch on GitHub. For this purpose Autoptimize hooks into template_redirect and will redirect to fallback Autoptimized CSS/ JS if … Read more
I’m not a big fan of AMP but I do have it active here on this blog using the official AMP plugin for WordPress, using it in “Reader” (aka “classic”) mode. That’s as far as I want to take it, but suppose (as was the case for an Autoptimize/ Critical CSS user I was helping … Read more
There’s an update for Async Javascript that needs your urgent attention. Update asap! [Update] I was warned by WordFence about a vulnerability in Async JavaScript that was being actively exploited. Based on their input I updated the plugin to fix the bug. WordFence in the meantime published a post about this and other affected plugins … Read more
Autoptimize just joined the “1+ million active installs”-club. Crazy! I’m very happy, thanks everyone for using, thanks for the support-questions & all the great feedback therein and especially thanks to the people who actively contributed and especially-especially to Emilio López (Turl) for creating Autoptimize and handing it over to me back in 2013 and to … Read more
Autoptimize 2.5.1 (out earlier this week) does not have an option to enforce font-display on Google Fonts just yet, but this little code snippet does exactly that; Happy swapping (or fallback-ing or optional-ing) 🙂
Autoptimize by default excludes inline JS and jquery.js from optimization. Inline JS is excluded because it is a typical cache-buster (due to changing variables in it) and as inline JS often requires jQuery being available as a consequence that needs to be excluded as well. The result of this “safe default” however is that jquery.js … Read more