Introduction

Site Performance, Core Enhancements, SEO & Metadata, Performance, Site speed

JCH Optimize improves the performance of your website by performing several optimizations to the HTML page aimed at improving the Web Vitals measured by PageSpeed Insights, such as First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Speed Index (SI), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Time to Interactive (TTI), and Total Blocking Time (TBT). These metrics attempt to quantify the quality of the user experience. JCH Optimize can improve these metrics to provide a better user experience and improve your PageSpeed scores.


Optimizations Performed By JCH Optimize

JCH Optimize optimizes your pages by automatically performing some recommended strategies offered by PageSpeed, which include:

  • Minify CSS and JavaScript files and the HTML. Unnecessary whitespaces and other characters are removed to reduce network payload sizes and script parse times.
  • Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources. Inline critical JavaScript and CSS and defer all non-critical resources to prevent resources from blocking the first paint of your page.
  • Defer offscreen images. Offscreen and hidden images are lazy-loaded after all critical resources have finished loading to lower Time To Interactive (TTI).
  • Add Width and Height attributes to images. Set an explicit width and height on image elements to reduce layout shifts and improve CLS.
  • Enable text compression. Boilerplate codes are placed in the .htaccess files at the site's directory root to instruct the server to serve text-based resources with compression (deflate or brotli) to minimize total network bytes.
  • Preload critical resources. Automatically analyzes each page to identify critical resources to load with a high priority by HTTP/2 enabled servers to improve LCP time.
  • Reduce initial server response. A Page Cache plugin is included in the package that integrates well with the JCH Optimize component and significantly reduces time-to-first-byte.

… and more.

Benefits of Using JCH Optimize

Research has confirmed that 40% of visitors will leave a website if it takes more than 4 seconds to download. Also, Google and other search engines have indicated that their ranking algorithm increasingly factors website download speed. The benefits of using JCH Optimize then include the following:

  • Improved user experience. Your users will have a pleasant experience as they browse your site.
  • Improved SEO. Your rankings in Google search pages can increase and improve organic visibility in internet searches.
  • Improved conversions. Your website revenue also increases with increased traffic volume and visitor retention.
Pro Version Available

A paid version is available on our website with more optimization options, advanced features, and premium support to resolve issues and assist with optimizing your site.

Great tool!



Posted on 26 April 2013
Easy to setup and install. I saw an instant 44% speed increase on the first site I installed this on. This is something I would gladly pay for but free is good too..;)
Got it working perfectly on my Staging server (at Hostgator), but when loaded to the client's server (on PairNetworks) the JavaScript is broken. Submitted a support ticket, but no answer. looks like hardly any tickets are being answered by the developer.

Shame cause it's a good extension, just needs better documentation, server requirements, and better support.

If not for that, would have rated it 5 stars.
I was pleased by the good reviews for this plugin and I thought it would speed up my website a lot after reading them. So I installed it, enabled it and.... then there was blackness and my site suddenly couldn't be found. I tried to go back into the admin area and disable it but I couldn't access any part of my site. Luckily I was saved by logging into my FTP program and deleting the plugin through that.



Be warned, this plugin isn't a gift from the God's to speed up every Joomla website. It has it's flaws and you should carefully consider which optimization extension to use through careful examination of their forums, not just these reviews.
congrats for such a great plugin.. i used to use CSSJSCompress, but when i switched to Joomla 3.0, i found out that the developer didn't update his extension which caused joomla JED to remove it.. i looked around and i found this little gem.. did the same job and minimized load time to about the third of what it was. love it.
New site was taking 14.3 seconds to load. Simply installing JCH dropped it to 5.8 and no CDN and no tweaking of the modules,extensions, etc.

Has done great on a 1.5 site and now on this new 2.5 one.

Highly recommended. Excellent work.
I just now found this plugin through Google search, downloaded, installed and wow! My PageSpeed increased from 68 to 88 immediately, the Performance Grader shows value from 18 sec to 9!



So, thank you guys for the development I will suggest the use of your plugin to all of my Joomla-using clients!

Wow, just plain amazing



Posted on 09 January 2013
I downloaded, installed, configured and tested speed on google in less than 3 minutes. My google PageSpeed went from 47 to 90!

Awesome extension



Posted on 29 December 2012
Thanks for this plugin, my site page speed increased from 76 to 91.. Cool.. huh..!!



But site gave a 500 error for some sprite image setting enabled.. Doesnt matter.. :)



My site is very fast now.. Thanks for the developer.. JCH optimize rocks..

JCH Optimize



Posted on 16 December 2012
Outstanding! My website was running 4 - 5 seconds, and now it is quite fast. On the Chrome browser, response time is about 1 second, on Firefox about 1 1/2 to 2 seconds until enough appears to be usable. Thanks!!!

Amazing



Posted on 08 December 2012
This extension needs a severe donation.



Thanks to this I've solved some javascript problems that were preventing me to load another extensions.



Thanks, a donation mandatory :)

JCH Optimize

Version:
9.0.2
Developer:
Samuel Marshall
Last updated:
Feb 05 2025
4 months ago
Date added:
Nov 18 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J4 J5
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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