Finally figured out why my images weren’t loading on my home page – w3 total cache and minification. Switched to WP Super Cache and tagdiv speed booster and manually added caching and compression to my site, and it’s a fair score for Google Page Speed, but not great.
Realized WP Super Cache doesn’t do minification, and neither does Speed Booster.
I’m going to test Better WordPress Minify.
Just wanted to say I’m disappointed that Newspaper doesn’t handle auto minification. Removing whitespace in CSS or JS shouldn’t break functionality.
NO themes I’ve used in the past 10 years auto-minify the css and js — as this allows developers, and others to be able to edit/modify without decoding.
You can manually minify your files if you wish. very simple to do.
Some js cannot be auto-minified. Simply does not work. There are tools which compress js very well — I mention one in my sticky post on WP optimization here in the forums. Ooops, it’s no longer sticky.
But if you search for Chris’ optimizations — should find it 🙂
