WP-Minify, Scripts Gzip and HeadJS Loader three
scripts that might have positive impact on Wordpress
performance
I'm trying to get the most of server + wordpress performance and
these days I'm heavily playing with it as one can read from my past
few articles ;)
Today I've come across three other plugins which in many cases
could be beneficial and bring a good performance increase in
wordpress, this are:
- WP-Minify - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-minify/
- HeadJS Loader -
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headjs-loader/
- Scripts Gzip -
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scripts-gzip/
WP-Minify - does combine all JS and CSS script into one
consolidated compressed script or style as well removes any
duplicate script resources and hence could have positive impact on
performance
HeadJS Loader - does strips out all your old javascript
declarations and puts them into one head.js file so that they are
loaded in parallel in the head of the pages and through that
prevents the blocking of load up until all JS is a loaded so
commonly seen these days on the net for more info on how HeadJS
works check out
http://headjs.com
Script Gzip - merges and compresses the CSS and JS links on
page, the plugin does not have caching functionality. The plugin
doesn't have much configuration options which I find as a good
thing
To find out what works best for you its a best practice if the
website speed load time is tested after loading each of the plugins
and with all of them enabled and configured, finally for best
results just leave only the plugins or a combination of them which
gives the lowest page responce times.