Autoptimize – WordPress Minification Plugin

If you want better performance out of your website Autoptimize can help. This minification plugin speeds up your site by cutting out the fat. For even better results you can pair this plugin with a caching plugin like Cache Enabler. Use it on your site to optimize the HTML, CSS and JavaScript code for blazing fast page loading.

Autoptimize makes it easy to optimize. How does it work? All your scripts and styles will be compressed, minified, concatenated and cached. The HTML code itself is minified – making your pages lightweight. This is especially good for performance on mobile devices.

What is minification exactly? If you have lots of HTML, CSS and JavaScript running on your site, minification will consolidate your code to speed things up. It’s nothing complicated. Minification basically cleans up your code by removing any characters that aren’t need to execute the code. This process removes:

• White space
• New line characters
• Comments
• Block Delimiters

These characters aren’t necessary to properly run your code, but they make it easier for humans to read the code. Essentially the code is reduced so it can be interpreted faster. Clean, concise code will deliver your content much faster.

There aren’t many minification plugins for WordPress and Autoptimize is one of the best. This plugin addresses a very simple yet important part of web performance. Autoptimize is lightweight and easy to setup. All you have to do is check a few boxes and you are done.

This is a well written plugin that is compatible with themes that follow the WordPress coding standards. The plugin authors have also been dutifully helping with support issues as well. If you care about performance, you will want to get as much mileage and speed out of your website as possible.

If you want to get more mileage out of your executable code, than this plugin is worth a test drive.  For experienced WordPress users, there are lots of advanced options you can configure. You can customize this plugin to do exactly what you need it to.

Features:

• Easy setup, works out-of-the-box
• Minification of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Advanced configurations available
• Prevent minification for specific posts or pages
• Integrates with caching plugins for accelerated performance