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Optimizations for Google Page Speed

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MatthiasLohr commented

Hello,

I just used the Google Page Speed Tool (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/) to analyze my Sparkling based website. Basically, the tool suggests to think about loading JS/CSS resources asynchronously.
For which resources do you think that could work? Is there any JavaScript used for the generation of the page i did not see? For me, disabling JavaScript for the page worked fine to get the landing page loaded and displayed without any errors.

What do you think about that?

Best regards
Matthias

MatthiasLohr commented

Sounds great and might be a valid solution, but what do you think about doing (some?) optimizations directly in the template code? This would push the need for such a plugin - and every plugin seems to be a bit of overhead and downgrade performance a bit - to a later point in time.

P.S.: This is not a feature request, but a first discussion about the reasons for doing (or not doing) it.

cristianraiber commented

@MatthiasLohr - There's not really much we can do. WordPress.org doesn't allow us to do many of these things, stating that they're best left to a plugin and/or a plugin already exists that handles this type of problem.

If you have any specific ideas, we could look into them and decide if they're doable without breaking the w.org rules & regulations

Here's some useful reading on the matter:

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