APC and speed?

[pmeenan]

(06-30-2010 12:48 AM)DJMorrisInc Wrote:  It's a battle for sure....I added a WP plugin I found this morning called "footer-javascript"....wow, it really brought my start render time down bigtime http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100629_PNB/ !!!

I'm still battling with combining of JS and CSS though...can I maybe try WP Minify or will it conflict with W3-Total-Cache?

Cool. Hadn't heard of that one before. Just be a little careful that your site still works. One of the difficulties in moving code to the bottom is that if some inline code on the page itself tries to call a function that hasn't loaded yet you will get some broken behavior (this can't happen if the javascript is loaded at the top which is why it's often there - because it is just easier to do).

For the CSS combining, it looks like you need to explicitly give it a list of files (from the FAQ):

Quote:How do I find the JS and CSS to optimize (minify) them with this plugin?

View your page source in your browser and search for any <style>, <link> or <script> tags that contain external CSS or JS files and one by one add them to the minify settings page. Do not include any CSS in conditional statements (unless you know what you are doing) like: