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JCH Optimize improves the performance of your website by performing several optimizations to the HTML page aimed at improving the Web Vitals measured by PageSpeed Insights, such as First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Speed Index (SI), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Time to Interactive (TTI), and Total Blocking Time (TBT). These metrics attempt to quantify the quality of the user experience. JCH Optimize can improve these metrics to provide a better experience for your users and improve your PageSpeed scores.
<h4>Optimizations Performed By JCH Optimize</h4>
JCH Optimize optimizes your pages by automatically performing some recommended strategies offered by PageSpeed, which include:
<ul>
<li>Minify CSS and JavaScript files and the HTML. Unnecessary whitespaces and other characters are removed to reduce network payload sizes and script parse times.</li>
<li>Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources. Inline critical JavaScript and CSS and defer all non-critical resources to prevent resources from blocking the first paint of your page.</li>
<li>Defer offscreen images. Offscreen and hidden images are lazy-loaded after all critical resources have finished loading to lower Time To Interactive (TTI).</li>
<li>Add Width and Height attributes to images. Set an explicit width and height on image elements to reduce layout shifts and improve CLS.</li>
<li>Enable text compression. Boilerplate codes are placed in the .htaccess files at the site’s directory root to instruct the server to serve text-based resources with compression (deflate or brotli) to minimize total network bytes.</li>
<li>Preload critical resources. Automatically analyzes each page to identify critical resources to load with a high priority by HTTP/2 enabled servers to improve LCP time.</li>
<li>Reduce initial server response. A page cache feature is included in the plugin that integrates well with the other optimization features and significantly reduces time-to-first-byte.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Benefits of Using JCH Optimize</h4>
Research has confirmed that 40% of visitors will leave a website if it takes more than 4 seconds to download. Also, Google and other search engines have indicated that their ranking algorithm increasingly factors website download speed. The benefits of using JCH Optimize then include:
<ul>
<li>Improved user experience. Your users will have a pleasant experience as they browse your site.</li>
<li>Improved SEO. Your rankings in Google search pages can increase and improve organic visibility in internet searches.</li>
<li>Improved conversions. Your website revenue also increases with increased traffic volume and visitor retention.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Version available</h4>
There is a pro version available with more optimization features and options and premium support with assistance to configure plugin to resolve conflicts and improve performance on our <a href="https://www.jch-optimize.net/subscribes/subscribe-wordpress/levels.html" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a>.
<h4>How to use</h4>
To use, first temporarily deactivate all page caching features and plugins, then use the ‘Automatic Settings’ (Minimum – Optimum) to configure the plugin. The ‘Automatic Settings’ are concerned with the combining of the CSS and javascript files, and the management of the combined files, and automatically sets the options in the ‘Automatic Settings Groups’. Use the Exclude options to exclude files or plugins that don’t work so well when combined with JCH Optimize. You can then try the other optimization features in turn such as Sprite Generator, Add Image Attributes, Lazy Load Images, CDN/Cookieless Domain, Optimize CSS Delivery, etc., based on the optimization needs of your site. Flush all your cache before re-enabling caching features and plugins.
<h4>Documentation</h4>
Visit our <a href="https://www.jch-optimize.net/documentation.html" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> on the main plugin site for more information on how the plugin works and how to configure it to improve your scores on <a href="https://gtmetrix.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">GtMetrix</a> and <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/" rel="nofollow ugc">PageSpeed Insights</a>
<h4>Advanced Features and Premium Support</h4>
If you need assistance on your website in configuring the plugin to resolve any conflicts or if you need access to more advanced features such as Http/2 support, Remove unused CSS, Lazy-load iframes, Optimize Images, using multiple domains with CDN, then there’s a <a href="https://www.jch-optimize.net/subscribe/levels.html#wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> available on a subscription basis. With an active subscription you get premium technical support through our ticket system, access to downloads of new versions, and access to our Optimize Image API.

JCH Optimize

I've tryed Autoptimize and Async JavaScript alone and in a pair. all combinations failed to combine js and css and lead to js errors on my site. Only this plugin configured for "Optimum" settings does it's job with no js errors on pages or any other side effects. I'm very impressed.

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<h4>Advantages</h4>
1) Serves static assets with an efficient cache policy helps to leverage browser caching.
2) Reduces page loading time of website.
3) Improves user experience as page loads very quickly than before.
4) Decreases total data-size of page.
5) Larger band of predefined file types are covered so it will increase bandwidth of files which can have expiry headers.
6) You can have different expire time for cache base on type of resources.
7) Merge multiple CSS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed.
8) Async loading of processed CSS files.
9) Minify CSS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed.
10) Inline small footer CSS files which helps to improve page speed.
11) Escape admin users from minification to avoid page builders related issues.
12) Lazy loading support for images, iframes, and videos.
13) Widgets and shortcodes can also be lazy loaded.
14) Lazy loading fully supports responsive images for better performance across devices.
15) Custom placeholder images can be used during lazy loading.
16) Exclude critical elements from lazy loading to ensure essential visuals load immediately.
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
1) Ability to add expires headers to External Resources
2) Adding new file types for adding expires headers
3) Refresh cache periodically
4) Unset Entity Tags
5) HTTP(Gzip) compression
6) Prevent Specific files from caching
7) Removing version info from files
8) Inline google fonts helps to load page faster and reduce external http requests.
9) Merge multiple JS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed.
10) Minify JS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed.
11) Plugin offers Defer scripts option to speed up rendering process.
12) HTML minification helps to reduce overall data size of page.
13) Automatically convert images to optimized formats like WebP or AVIF for faster delivery without manual effort.
14) Smartly resize and serve images based on screen size and device type to minimize bandwidth and boost speed.
15) Support next-gen formats like WebP and AVIF for superior compression, smaller files, and sharper visuals.
16) Track image optimization stats, savings, and performance improvements directly from your WordPress dashboard.
17) Automatically deliver the perfect image size for every device, ensuring crisp visuals and smooth performance.
18) Optimize images without visible loss in clarity—maintaining pixel perfection while reducing file size.
19) Works out-of-the-box with WordPress and major themes or plugins, no setup hassles or coding required.
<h4>Documentation</h4>
For Plugin documentation, please refer our <a href="https://www.addexpiresheaders.com/documentation" rel="follow nofollow ugc">plugin website</a>.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
1) Make sure that the “mod_expires” module is enabled on your website hosting server.
2) It is necessary to have read/write permission of .htaccess file to plugin. If not then update file permissions accordingly.
3) check status page of plugin for more info.
<h3>Usage</h3>
To use this plugin do the following:
1) Firstly activate Plugin.
2) Go to plugin settings page.
3) Check Files types you want to have expires headers and also add respective expires days for mime type using input box and make sure you enable respective mime type, for which group of files you want to add expires headers.
4) Once you hit “submit” button all options you selected in settings page saved database of website and accordingly .htaccess file will updated and add expires headers for respective selected files.
5) For Minification check respective settings at Minification Tab of plugin settings page.
6) For Lazy Loading check respective settings at Lazy Loading Tab of plugin settings page.

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