Upgrading to the premium plugin allows you to unload unused styles & scripts on extra pages such as:
- Taxonomy pages such as default WordPress categories, tags, and custom created ones such as products’ categories from WooCommerce.
- Author pages (e.g. the page showing all posts published by a specific author, detected via
is_author()
function) - Default WordPress Search Page
- WooCommmerce Search Page (which has the same settings as the actual shop page detected via
is_shop()
function) - 404 Page (Not Found): this one has be as light as possible and it’s less likely that many of the CSS and JavaScript files that are needed here (detected via
is_404()
function) - Date Archive Page: this is any page that retrieves articles filtered by the date, detected via
is_date()
function
As for the loaded JavaScript files, attributes such as defer and async can be applied
There are a plethora of techniques that are often used to defer parsing; however, the simple and preferred technique is to simply Defer loading of JavaScript until it is needed. If this technique isn’t appropriate to use on your page, it is next suggested that you use the <script async> attribute where appropriate, which prevents parsing from blocking the initial page load by deferring it until the browser’s UI thread is not busy doing something else. All these settings can be applied with Asset CleanUp Pro without writing any code.
Change the location of the CSS/JS files (could be moved from HEAD to BODY to prevent render-blocking or vice-versa if you need early triggering of specific files)
Unload CSS/JS that is hardcoded (not loaded via the standard WordPress functions such as wp_enqueue_scripts()
). The LINK/STYLE/SCRIPT tags could have been added via editing the PHP code (not using the right WordPress action hooks), directly inside posts content, widgets, or via plugins such as “Insert Headers and Footers”, “Head, Footer and Post Injections”, etc.
⚙️ “Test Mode” Functionality → Worried about making optimization mistakes? Don’t be anymore!
This allows you to optimize the website (unload useless files, set async, defer to loaded JavaScript files, clean up HTML code) without applying the changes “live” (to the regular visitor) in case you ever have any doubts that a change could break the functionality of the page/website. Any changes you’ve done will only be applied to you (the logged-in administrator). Once you’re happy with how the page looks and works, you can disable “Test Mode” to push the changes live so everyone else can enjoy the faster page loads 😉
Lite vs Pro |
LITE | PRO |
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Manage enqueued CSS & JavaScript files on Homepage, Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types (e.g. WooCommerce product pages, Easy Digital Downloads download items) | ||
Bulk Unloads: Everywhere (Site-Wide), On Specific Pages & Post Types, Add load exceptions | ||
Manage the CSS & JavaScript files within the Dashboard (default) and Front-end view (bottom of the page) if chosen | ||
Enable “Test Mode” to only apply the plugin’s changes for the logged-in administrator for debugging purposes | ||
Minify remaining loaded CSS & JavaScript files (with option to add exceptions) | ||
Combine remaining loaded CSS & JavaScript files into fewer files from each <HEAD> and <BODY> location (with option to add exceptions) |
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Remove unused elements from the <HEAD> and <BODY> including the following link tags: Really Simple Discovery (RSD), Windows Live Writer, REST API, Posts/Pages Shortlink, Post’s Relational, WordPress Generators (also good for security), RSS Feed Links. Valid HTML comments are also stripped (exceptions can be added) while conditional Internet Explorer comments are preserved. |
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Site-Wide Unload For Common Elements that are often unused such as: WordPress Emojis, jQuery Migrate, Comment Reply (if not using WP as a blog) | ||
Disable XML-RPC Protocol Support partially or completely | ||
Inline CSS Files * Read more | ||
Inline JavaScript Files * Read more | ❌ | |
Instruct the browser to download a CSS/JS file based on the visitor’s screen size (e.g. download it on a desktop device, but not on mobile one) | ❌ | |
Defer CSS loaded in the <BODY> to reduce render-blocking resources |
❌ | |
Manage CSS & JavaScript files on Categories, Tags, Custom Taxonomy pages, Date & Author Archive Pages, Search Results & 404 Not Found pages | ❌ | |
Manage hardcoded (non-enqueued) CSS & JavaScript files | ❌ | |
Move CSS & JavaScript files from <HEAD> to <BODY> (to reduce render-blocking) or vice-versa (for very early triggering) |
❌ | |
Apply “async” and “defer” attributes to loaded JavaScript files | ❌ | |
Priority in releasing new features & other improvements (updates that are meant for both Lite and Pro plugins are first released to the Pro users) | ❌ | |
Priority Customer Support |
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