Fast Velocity Minify Best Settings (Updated)

Do you want to improve site performance by minifying the CSS and Javascript of your WordPress site?

In this tutorial, I’m going to share Fast Velocity Minify settings which will minify JavaScript and CSS and make your site blazing fast.

But before reducing JS and CSS, we will know why it is important.

Why CSS and Javascript Minify is Necessary

If you install the Fast Velocity Minify plugin on your site, it reduces your web page size and speeds up your WordPress website.

Even Google also recommends to minify Javascript and CSS files and already announced that fast loading sites will affect the search engine ranking.

Website loading speed is a very important factor for good SEO. Apart from this, a fast loading website improves the user experience and get a better rank in search engine result.

Now you have understood minify Javascript and CSS is a very important factor to improve website speed and search engine ranking.

About Fast Velocity Minify Plugin

This is a speed optimization plugin for developers and advanced users, reduces HTTP requests by merging CSS & Javascript files into groups of files, while attempting to use the least amount of files as possible. It minifies CSS and JS files with PHP Minify (no extra requirements).

This plugin includes options for developers and advanced users, however, the default settings should work just fine for most sites.

• Merge JS and CSS files into groups to reduce the number of HTTP requests
• Google Fonts merging, inlining and optimization
• Handles scripts loaded both in the header & footer separately
• Keeps the order of the scripts even if you exclude some files from minification

• Minifies CSS and JS with PHP Minify only, no third party software or libraries needed.
• Option to defer JavaScript and CSS files, either globally or pagespeed insights only.
• Creates static cache files in the uploads directory.
• Preserves your original files, by duplicating and copying those files to the uploads directory

• Option to Minify HTML, remove extra info from the header and other optimizations.
• Ability to turn off minification for JS, CSS or HTML (purge the cache to see it)
• Ability to turn off CSS or JS merging completely (so you can debug which section causes conflicts and exclude the offending files)
• Ability to manually ignore JavaScript or CSS files that conflict when merged together (please report if you find some)

… and many more features are available.

Now let’s get started how to configure Fast Velocity Minify settings…

Fast Velocity Minify Settings

First, you need to install and activate Fast Velocity Minify plugin on your site.

After activating the plugin, click onSetting >> Fast Velocity Minify. This will redirect you to the plugin’s setup page. As you can see in the lower screenshot,

Now, click on the “Setting” tab and follow the screenshot below for Fast Velocity Minify best settings.

After that, click on the “Save Changes” button.

Congratulation! You have successfully configured Fast Velocity Minify settings to your site.

However, its default settings work well for most sites.

Also, Fast Velocity Minify plugin provides advanced settings for advanced users and developers.

Its alternative you can use Autoptimize plugin. Here is Autoptimize Best Settings

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