Autoptimize Review: Optimization Plugin You May Not Need
Autoptimize has over a million active installations, but many sites using it don't actually need it. The plugin handles code optimization like minifying CSS and JavaScript, not caching. If your caching plugin or CDN already includes optimization, you're running duplicate processing.
Shane explains what Autoptimize actually does versus what caching plugins do, when it genuinely helps and when it creates redundancy, why JavaScript optimization is most likely to break things, and how HTTP/2 changes the math on file concatenation.
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