If I get CloudFlare’s CDN should I disable tagDiv Speed Booster? Or do CloudFlare’s CDN, tagDiv Speed Booster, and W3 Total Cache all work together?
Hi,
You don’t need to disable the tagDiv Speed Booster plugin as this should all work together but please note that when using W3TC we only recommend using page cache without minifying js or css. Same with the CDN we don’t recommend any javascript minification.
If you want to do this you would need to do it manually and search and exclude the scripts which generate errors.
Thanks
Hi,
can you please explain why I shouldn’t use the minify options? I searched for guides on google for the best settings when using W3TC and CDN. All of them seem to recommend enabling minify + other options like browser/database cache.
Do you perhaps have some screenshots or maybe video going over the optimal settings in W3TC? I don’t have the minify option enabled under the W3 general settings – but if I click on the minify below the general settings
JS minify and CSS minify are enabled. Should I disable those too?
I’d also like an explanation. I use Cloudflare on my main website, but considering dropping it as sites I run with this theme on the same server (using non recommended js and css minify settings) load to perfection, while my main site loads the content first and then loads themepanel changes (fonts, background colors, etc) a few seconds later. It’s quite annoying.
Hi,
@Ryuko We don’t recommend using the minify option for js and css also because we had numerous theme issues reported and the vast majority of them proved to occur because of minified js/css or when using CDN host services which can deliver old file content if not used right.
Taking all this into consideration we don’t recommend using the minifying option for js/css only if this are done manually and carefully studied which scripts can cause issues if minified and ignore them. This is also the reason we only recommend page cache as fro the database cache you can use MySQL Query Cache and find more info about it here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html
Unfortunately we don’t have any documentation on this or tutorials and you can enable and use the js or css minfied but you should take note of that first if you have any theme related issues and errors in your console and disable them to check if the issue is due to the minfier.
So in conclusion please note that we don’t guarantee that using js/css minification will definitely cause issues but we just don’t recommend them to be done automatically as they could case issues.
@Aedin84 If the minify settings work well for you, that’s ok, you should consider them first though if you have problems or other js conflicts.
That happens because the theme panel changes are loaded after the main styles and using the speed booster plugin moves scripts and style to the footer determining the content to loaded first the the styles.
Hope this makes sense!
Thanks
Lucian,
Ironically enough, I found that because I had the speed booster plugin activated on my live site that’s why it was slightly slower than my other websites (which I’ve been testing the theme on initially). After turning it off I’m very pleased with the speed. That’s not to say that the plugin doesn’t do its job, but it wasn’t necessarily good for my server setup.
Hi,
The plugin only moves js and css at the page bottom. Enable the plugin and check if you have errors in the browser console, if you do that may be the cause of your slow down.
Thank you, Emil G.
