Defer / Async javascript and css

[Park]

Park

October 15, 2017 at 1:19 am

Hi Ben,

I have read through your other replies on the forums regarding this topic.

You say PageSpeed is just for analyzing and may not be ideal for every site. I agree.

However, I have tested the site on Pingdom and GTMetrix and my scores seem to be ‘okay’ but my page load times are still 5 seconds or so.

I did played around a lot with W3TC plugin and tried to defer/async the javascript to make load times faster. I did this by using the assistant inside W3TC and then also manually by looking at the scripts that GTMetrix brought up for deferring.

To accomplish this I have to enable minification but I think at that point alone the site/theme crashes and I get a 500 error code from the browser.

Is there anyway to get around this using the W3TC or something else? I want to increase the load time of the page. (I know there is a possibility that it is the server as well)

I was using Autoptimize to complement W3TC but for testing purposes I turned it off and went through the enable/disable, add one by one testing phase and that also didn’t yield any results.

Thanks again,

Best,

-Park