WP Fastest Cache minification, combination & Cloudflare

Website, Application, Performance
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I’ve installed WP Fastest Cache and am seeking to understand the best way of increasing speed for my website; is it ok to minify HTML on both the WP Fastest Cache plugin as well as on Cloudflare, or should I only use the plugin/or Cloudflare? I’ve read many conflicting configuration comments online.

Is it generally a good idea to combine CSS and Js? I wanted to ensure that I don’t undermine speed by selecting the ‘wrong’ options.

Thanks for your help.

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hello @nicholasmorgan05

I don’t recommend having both caching features (plugin and CF cache unless you know what you’re doing)

I would suggest at this point to take advantage of the Cloudflare caching setup with WordPress.

Consider to use Page Rules to cache static content:

check this blog post, it will be the answer to your questions:

I would also suggest having a look in our Automatic Cache Management

and check our APO service:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049822312-Understanding-Automatic-Platform-Optimization-APO-with-WordPress

check this Blog post will be very useful for you to understand how it works:

Let us know in case that you have any issues with caching your WP site!

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Many thanks for your help - seems happy. Just need to check on GTMetrix, once I can retest again (allocation used up for now).

Do you recommend using the minify buttons on Cloudflare for HTML etc?

Thanks again.
Nick

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happy that helped here,

yes we do recommend that! check also the related Knowledge base article:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168196-How-do-I-minify-HTML-CSS-and-JavaScript-to-optimize-my-site-

and as always let us know if you have any issues!

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Make sure to perform tests on various platforms, like for an example:

and get an average of your speed tests, to have a general idea

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Just had this when I did a test on the plugin:
Error on dynamic page (https://healthyheartycook.com): Invalid Cache-Control response header. If you are using Litespeed Server, please disable the option Overwrite the cache-control header for Wordpress’s pages using web server rules, purge the cache and retry.

Will look into how to do this - beyond my current expertise.

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Could do with some further help if possible - now not working at all :-/

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Any ideas how to get it to work? I see there is an ‘endurance page cache’ under the must use plugins, but am not sure if that’s affecting it, and if so, how to delete.

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