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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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5 Websites - all went from over 12 seconds to under 5 seconds



Posted on 05 April 2011
I couldn't be happier...



I tried enabling every option.. I use Yoothemes, Rocketthemes, etc and the only thing I had to turn off where the CSS Sprites in one of my Yoothemes, but my load time was still dramatically reduced. Can't wait to apply this to the rest of my sites. Thanks!

Like child's play



Posted on 19 February 2011
You probably get most out of this plugin if You use any "sophisticated" joomla template, that has those cool features like slideshows, typografy, ... or other features that require scripting or a lot of css.



+ Installation: just use joomla installer

+ Configuration: there are 20+ options, but don't be scared - most are on/off options, with explanations that any joomla administrator will understand.

+ Speed gain: tested my site with 5 different web page analysis tool: after installing this plugin all showed *at least moderate* gain in page speed. In my case both number of CSS and Script files was reduced, also CSS and scipt size. Total bytes loaded was cut 30% with my site. Most importantly this plugin seemed to get rid of ALL css-derived images (mostly from typography) that were not needed on the tested page. Result: http requests were cut down 90%!



Did not find any Cons really. So no reason why You sholdn't give it a try.

Best CSS/JS optimizer extension!



Posted on 13 February 2011
After trying a few other similar extensions, this one works the best and gives the most options!

Rocks !



Posted on 22 December 2010
Thank you very much !

Easy installation and visible improvement in seconds !



Keep up the good work.

Very good plugin, but the sprite generator does not work



Posted on 13 December 2010
This is the first performance-improving plugin I found that actually works for my template. Anything else that I tried resulted in an error.



The flexibility in placing the compressed javascript code is a key feature that makes this plugin unique.



It is a pity, however, that the sprite generator does not seem to be working.



Nevertheless, I wholeheartedly recommend this plugin.

it's working like a charm!!!



Posted on 04 November 2010
thank you for your great job!

Only the sprite generator isn't working for me everything else is working just perfect!

I'm using it on all my sites ... thanks :)

Definitely improved my site performance...



Posted on 20 October 2010
Definitely improved my site performance. I went from an F to a C in YSlow analysis.



The sprite generator did not work well for me on my site. It only found a single image and that image ended up having black artefacts in it.



A feature I would like to see added is a "Development" mode that shows you what actions were taken, what the compression values were including percentage saving. The JFinalizer plugin has this capability and it is really easy to tell whether things are working and what they are doing.

Does what it says on the tin!



Posted on 12 October 2010
Just a quick note to say thanks for this extension, it does exactly what it says on the tin!



I spent the day testing out all of the minifier plugins/extensions listed here and this was the ONLY one that pruduced results worthy of any note. The main goal for my client was to reduce the load time of their page. Using JCH Optimize reduced the page load time by a staggering 50% :)



JCH is a breeze to set up, has plenty of options (even for the advanced user) and so far I can't fault it.



Highly recommended!!



Waseem

Excellent Plugin



Posted on 21 September 2010
I have had great success with this plugin. It does what it is supposed to do, and strikes a good balance of ease of use vs flexibility&transparency.



As usual with performance optimization, it pays to take some time to work with the plugin. Out of the box it will give some improvements. But the biggest gains are seen from setting other options, and making the small, site specific changes to ensure everything still runs smoothly.



With everything configured, big jumps in PageSpeed and YSlow scores are easy to see over unoptimized sites. And of course, precious seconds off your measured real-world download speeds.



Consider setting this one up on any production Joomla site. It is unglamorous, but there aren't many things you can do with half an hour that will make such a worthwhile difference in the long run.

Very good optimization



Posted on 11 September 2010
Makes css files into one, though some themes are left with some more small css files...

Gzip works very well.

Very simple and straight interface.

Just works!

Also, very good, upto the point documentation.

AND F/OSS!

JCH Optimize

Version:
9.0.2
Developer:
Samuel Marshall
Last updated:
Feb 05 2025
10 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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