Minify CSS HTML Java

[stan]

Hi,
Just wanted to know if i Minify CSS HTML & Java on parallax Pro, just to load it faster
would there be a problem for SEO or any other known issues ?

Stan

http://street4all.com/

[MoodyRiviera]

Just the other day I was watching a video while setting up WP-Rocket (caching plugin) on one of my web sites, and in the video they suggested caution when minifying CSS and JS.

You're probably planning to do this in some other way than using WP-Rocket, but the advice they gave might apply anyway.

What they basically said was, even though it's easy to set WP-Rocket options to minify HTML, CSS, Google Fonts, and JS, they warned about possible problems when minifying...especially when minifying the CSS and JS...and their basic advice was to be careful.

They also indicated that minifying these things has minimal effect on your site speed.

*MoodyRiviera*

[stan]

Thank you very much Moody

[frobn]

Google's PageSpeed Insights lists ten rules, 3 of which are:

• Minify CSS
• Minify HTML
• Minify JavaScript

It is possible that WP-Rocket has some functions that conflict with minimized code.

[stan]

Frobn i do Agree, so what plugin to use or which one do you personally use to minify

[MoodyRiviera]

I've seen more than a few WordPress sites (and even sites done in years before WordPress was even heard of) where the designers or developers minified HTML, CSS and/or JS, and ended up with broken web sites....I even had it happen on a site that was pure HTML...so this isn't any kind of problem with WP-Rocket.

I also agree with WP-Rocket's advice that minifying that stuff doesn't really make a big difference in page speed...regardless of what Google has to say about it. Many people have been led far astray by following Google's advice and dictates.

Minify at your own risk.

*MoodyRiviera*

[frobn]

First, I agree that there are risks anytime you add complexity so you need to take that into consideration. Though I think that if there is a problem it is likely to be from a conflict with another plugin.

I have not used WP-Rocket so I can't speak specifically to it but I have and do use W3 Total Cache in combination with Async JS and CSS with very good results. The only problem I have run into so far is with Foo Gallery that has a conflict with Async Js. Lately I have I started combining JS files and Css files to reduce DNS requests then minifying them manually.

[Victor Font]

I use WP Rocket on several sites with Parallax Pro. When I minified CSS and JavaScript, everything worked fine in Firefox but the sites got scrambled in Chrome and Safari, which use a different rendering engine. I don't minify CSS and JS anymore.

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[frobn]

Hi Victor,

What I'd like to point out is that you did the right thing. There was a problem, you isolated it and decided the best course of action was to not minify. Did you experience similar problems with Rocket and other themes?.

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