Page Speed Slowed Down After Minifying Code

[chrisvogel]

We recently implemented a plugin to minify our code on all of our homepages (800+ websites). The hope was that this would improve our page load speed. Unfortunately, the results are showing that page speed has slowed down across the board for all the homepages.

I am very perplexed by this. Any insight into why this might have happened and what steps to take from here would be much appreciated!

[Vizergy]

Just curious... if you uninstall the plugin does the page load speed return to what it was before the install?

[ThomasHarvey]

Have you had any sort of caching?

Also have you tried cloudflares free cdn? They offer minifying and it makes it really easy.

[MattRoney]

Hi Chris! Sounds like Billy and Thomas might be able to help. Do you have any info for them?

[chrisvogel]

We haven't yet tested turning it back off yet. We only have about 20 days of data since implementing it so I would like to at least get a full month of data to analyze.

[chrisvogel]

It's not the process of implementing the minified code that's an issue, it's just the results we are seeing from it.

We also plan to implement browser caching, but want to do these implementations one at a time so we can more easily measure the results of each.

[Bigb06]

In order to help you, can you give us some details :

• which plugin do you use ?
• Do you minify code at deployment, before caching ?

Minifying can be an issue if the result is not cached, so each time the page is loading, the server must minify the code... And perhaps if your server is on a shared hosting, it can be time consuming !