lukecav/awesome-wp-speed-up

Plugins and resources to speed up and optimize your WordPress site.

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awesome-wp-speed-up's Issues

Torque in wrong category

Hi, thanks for listing my plugin Torque. But it is not a page caching plugin, it is more focused on minification and transport optimisation.

Could you move it into a more appropriate category?

strpos() complains on Empty needle

Hey guys.
After the one of the recent updated w3speedster starts to fire this weird warning:
PHP message: PHP Warning: strpos(): Empty needle in /wp-content/plugins/w3speedster/includes/class_js_minify.php on line 291
Any idea why it happens?

varnish 5 for wordpress woocmerce

please tune a varnish 5 for WordPress/woocomerce

HTTP/3

Hi Luke, your list is pretty extensive and not much to add, however, I noticed that HTTP/3 is not mentioned there. we have a detailed overview of it in case you would like add as a resource https://kinsta.com/blog/http3/
Thanks and Happy New Year!

link fix plz

Gonzales
WPtimize

these links are swapped

DB Cleanup

https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-garbage-collector/
helps clean up removed plugins that don't clear themselves out

Missing

Please add
Image Compression
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-image-compression/

CDN Integration - allows for 3 seperate CDN paths (image, js, css)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cache-performance/

Cache - has integrated CDN re-writes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cache-performance/

Index Autoload

Index autoload plugin has been permanently closed.

This is an alternative: Add Index To Autoload

Cleaning old plugins

Should the old plugins be removed from the repo? - not maintained and etc

KADENCE + CODE SNIPPETS + CLOUDWAYS + CLOUDFLARE + WP-ROCKET

I am trying to get my Kadence site to pass 90 Page Speed score, and have a few questions. I have a few questions:

1. What are the pros and cons of using CODE SNIPPETS Plugin instead of GTM ? It seems like managing everything would be much easier with CODE SNIPPETS, because I am able to see them inside of my WP admin, however, I am unclear on what the point is for having GTM (Google Tag Manager)? I must be missing something? Most of my sites are smaller sites, and not large corporation sites, so I don't have any problem of getting access to FTP to change scripts, etc, is that the biggest pro for GTM? I want to keep my site as lightweight as possible. I use WP ROCKET, and also, they have ADD ON options which load FB PIXEL and GA locally, and their support staff says it doesn't work with GTM : /

2. How do I add the GA code properly to CODE SNIPPETS? Does it have to be in the head and the body?

3. How do I add the GTM code properly to CODE SNIPPETS, if I decide to use GTM as well?

4. How do I add the Facebook Pixel to CODE SNIPPETS? Should I also install the FACEBOOK FOR WORDPRESS, by Facebook? which one should I use? What are the pros and cons of each ? https://wordpress.org/plugins/official-facebook-pixel/

5. WP ROCKET options has this section called ADD ONS, and I am unsure how this works. Does anyone have any advice ? https://www.mycart123.com/uploads/screenshot31057F93.png

6. WP ROCKET LAZY LOAD, what's the default best practice here, should I check this or no? I thought Wordpress 7.2 is lazy loading all images by default now? Even when I do check this option, I am still getting errors in page speed test saying I should lazy load images on my site, so I am unsure if that even works?

7. Kadence Theme has an option to LOAD GOOGLE FONTS LOCALLY, can anyone offer a simple explanation or some stepwise instructions on how to do that? I am using Digital Ocean Cloudways Hosting. I use CLOUDFLARE for caching.

8. Does anyone have smart suggestions for developing on a WP site and minimizing latency when updating a page?

9. What is the meaning of life? 😉