Autoptimize

Autoptimize is a popular WordPress plugin designed to improve website speed and efficiency by optimizing various aspects of your site’s front end. It compacts and caches scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default, and moves and defers scripts to the footer. It also minifies HTML code, which can make your website faster and lighter by reducing the amount of data transferred between the server and your visitors. This plugin is essential for site owners looking to boost SEO rankings, enhance user experience, and improve site performance without needing extensive technical knowledge.

Features:

1. CSS Optimization: Minifies and caches stylesheets, automatically injects CSS into the page head, and can inline critical CSS while loading the rest asynchronously to improve load times.
2. JavaScript Optimization: Aggregates and minifies JavaScript files, defers their loading to reduce render-blocking resources, and improves interaction readiness.
3. HTML Minification: Compresses HTML code, removing unnecessary whitespace and comments to decrease page size and improve load speed.
4. Image Optimization: Integrates with popular image compression services to optimize images, serves scaled images, and can lazy load media to save bandwidth and speed up initial page loads.
5. Extensive API for Hooking: Provides a comprehensive API for developers to customize optimization techniques and adapt configurations to specific needs.
6. CDN Support: Easily integrates with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for distributing static files globally, further improving site performance and reducing server load.
7. Cache Management: Efficiently manages cached resources to ensure visitors receive the most up-to-date content without compromising on speed.
8. Google Fonts Optimization: Optimizes Google Fonts by combining them into one request and can also host them locally to reduce external HTTP requests.
9. Compatibility Modes: Offers various compatibility modes to work seamlessly with other plugins and themes, ensuring broad compatibility across different WordPress installations.
10. Preconnect & DNS Prefetch: Supports preconnect and DNS prefetch to optimize connection setups for external services, reducing latency.