Sean Michaud

Optimize Scripts & Styles optimizes your site’s JavaScript and CSS files by combining, minifying and caching them. This will help your site’s overall performance and user experience by reducing the number of files served up and the overall size of these files.
For developers, this allows you to maintain uncompressed versions for development themes or plugins, while compressing them for a production environment.
For you SEO buffs, it cleans up the number of scripts that get included and downloaded to your site visitors, helping your overall PageSpeed score.
Header and footer script locations are maintained as well as any localized data used for the scripts and the minified files are stored in the /cache folder, making it friendly for plugins like WP Super Cache. Media attributes are also maintained for print stylesheets.
<h3>Features</h3>
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<li>Combine & minify all JavaScript & CSS that is enqueued</li>
<li>Stores the optimized files in the cache folder for faster page loads</li>
<li>Compatible with caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache</li>
<li>Enable for logged in users (not recommended)</li>
<li>Available options to remove or ignore enqueued scripts and styles</li>
<li>Optional button in the admin bar to clear scripts and styles</li>
<li>Includes an option to remove script type attributes for HTML5 validation</li>
</ul>

Optimize Scripts & Styles

Optimize Scripts & Styles combines scripts and styles on your site, minifies them and provides cachable versions for improved site performance.

Voorsie

Often when trying to optimize the Google Pagespeed score, there is one script which still causing the ‘Leverage browser caching’ rule popping up: Google’s own gtag.js and/or analytics.js file…
With this plugin you will be able to cache this file on your local server and enable browser caching for longer than 2 hours. The plugin will check every day if there is a newer version of the file to keep the cache up to date.

Cache External Scripts

Save the Google Analytics file (gtag.js / analytics.js) locally to be able to cache it for longer than 2 hours for a better PageSpeed score!

Optimize Scripts & Styles vs Cache External Scripts