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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.

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Life Saver!



Posted on 25 June 2012
This is a must for speeding up your site. I had a lot of problems with pages taking a long time to load and WOW! it really works!



Thanks for a great plugin

This plugin works like a charm!



Posted on 29 May 2012
I just installed it, and the improving of the load time was so notorious!



I did setup all the options to yes, except "Defer javascript" and "Replace @import" and the improve was around the 50%,



congratulations guys for this Plugin!

AND ITS FREE!

JCH Optimize Cut my load speed in half



Posted on 08 April 2012
Without any tweaking the out of the box settings cut my load speed in 1/2. Very impressive, this was a site that was very problematic for me attempting manual changes. I am working it in my other sites now!

Surprised and happy



Posted on 21 March 2012
I'm a non-technical person, and had many fears about trying to optimize my site. This extension could not be more user friendly and easy to use. I have been able to use everything but the sprites, so far. When I have more time, I hope to get that worked out, as well.

So far, my site has gone from a C rating to an A. Thanks for a great contribution.

Utterly fantastic



Posted on 21 March 2012
This little plugin is fantastic, and fully deserving of 5 stars. My site has sped up a huge amount since installing it. The sprites function wasn't working for me a few days ago so I just left it off, but I checked the support forum today and the problem's been FIXED - so if you find something's not quite working check the support forum, because quite likely someone else has experienced the same issue and there is a fix available. I back this plugin 100%, I think it should go commercial because it's that good I'd pay for it (twice!) Great work developer!!

SAVED ME!!!



Posted on 19 March 2012
Why no Six Star rating available for this extension? My heart was in my stomach, I could barely get anything to load, front or back end. I knew it was my fault - way too many bells and whistles loaded, but I didn't know which one(s) to eliminate. As a last ditch effort, I loaded this bell - this whistle - and WHAM!!! My site was on fire! I did nothing but INSTALL! I didn't configure a thing, it worked right out of the box. I know I have stuff to fix, but this extension SAVED ME! THANK YOU!!!

Javascript to bottom issue



Posted on 09 March 2012
Hi, the plugin is certainly the best of it's type, everything is good but i meet just one problem.



When i use the combine javascript and want to put all the javascript to the tag, the script didn't apply this rule for the javascript in page, then it do errors for somes.



One thing of this good plugin its to have the possibility to class by customized order the javascript, but with the problem mentionned above we loose the capacity to have an perfect perfect plugin.



If the owner of the plugin can read this and add two options as:



- Keep order (for javascript) in this case we dont have to customize the order if we want to keep the same order as by default



- Take the inline javascript to the after the combined js with jch



I want to add that this plugin is really the best i tried, and i tried a lot, and somtimes i payed for :). I wiil pay for those two options :) thanks a lot

Error on line 651



Posted on 14 February 2012
Hello,



First I want to congratulate for the excellent tool, the results in the loading speed of pages has been impressive, my system is Joomla 2.5.



Only I could not use the "sprite generator", when active shows the following error message in the "Front End":



Fatal error: __clone method called on non-object in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/plugins/system/jch_optimize/jch_optimize.php on line 651



Best Regards,



Fernando
Owner's reply: Oops..looked like I introduced a bug in the last release (2.0.1)..sorry about that. If you remove the 'clone' keyword from line 651 on jch_optimize.php it should work OK. Gonna try and make another release soon.

Very Impressive



Posted on 08 February 2012
I've been working with Joomla for about 2 years now as a web developer and recently built out, what turned out to be, a rather slow site. Google Analytics was reporting average page load times of 7 seconds...



Knowing that there were cache issues with v1.5 -- I did some searching and found this plug-in. Installed and started flipping the options on.



The site now loads pages on average in under 1 second. It's magical. A 7X IMPROVEMENT



What an awesome extension.



Thank you JCH Optimize!

True Happiness



Posted on 03 February 2012
I've been using joomla and building sites for Clients for 3 years. Now doing a magazine type blog and page load speed was a top priority. I tried SEO techniques, combining my CSS, manually editing the templates to have javascript defered but all proved just not good enough.



Tried JCH, and wow!!! WOW!!! At first site went off and had to get my browser dns and got hosting staff to clear server dns, then started to add settings one at a time.



Am now down to 0.43 secs from initially 18secs!!!



I give this plugin a No. 1 rating in joomla 'To haves'



Thanks to the developer

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
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Compatibility:
J4 J5
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