Amasty Google Page Speed Optimizer Review By Brijesh
Google Page Speed Optimizer for Magento
As soon as Google takes into account clear code structure for web ranking, its vital to keep all JavaScript and CSS files under total control. At the same time the site performance is very important not only for Google, but for user experience as well. According to Kissmetrics research about 40% of users will likely leave your store if the page load time is more than 3 seconds. Therefore, page response optimization will not only improve customer experience, but bring you more conversions.
General Settings
Admin Panel → System → Configuration → Google Page Speed Optimizer
Make your store much more Google and user-friendly by optimizing your code structure. Automatically compress product images and use advanced JS/CSS minification options to improve your website performance and get higher score in Google PageSpeed Insights.
- Improve your website pages performance
- Make your code structure as clear as possible
- Get high score in Google PageSpeed Insights
- Automatically optimize product images
- Use CSS and JS Minification option
NOTE Сheck your website score with the Google PageSpeed Insights tool to see that you need improvements. With the module you will make your code structure as clear as possible and will definitely see positive results for your desktop version.
Use CSS and JavaScript minification options. Optimize your product images, add timestamp to URLs of all CSS/JS files, move JavaScript to footer for better page performance and use an advanced debug feature to detect and remove all code errors.
ADVANCED OPTIONS FOR PAGE SPEED OPTIMIZATION
Choose the level for JavaScript minification
Use CSS minification tool
Add timestamp to automatically flush page cache
Move JavaScript to footer for proper page rendering
Add minification errors to log
Optimize images in Magento
Due to the speed optimization tool you can automatically compress all product images (jpeg, png, gif) generated by Magento without quality loss. Use CLI (command line interface) to compress pictures placed in media and skin directories.
CSS minification
The CSS minification option enables you to automatically remove all unnecessary characters like new lines or comments without affecting your source code.
Enable JavaScript minification
Use this feature to make your JavaSript code as clear as possible and increase Magento page speed. Select one of three compilation levels starting from removing white spaces and ending with advanced code transformations:
- White spaces removal
- Simple code optimization
- Advanced code optimization
Advanced debug mode
With the debug option all possible minification errors will be accurately logged.
Add Timestamp to URLs of all CSS/JS files
The option makes browser automatically clear page cache when one of cached CSS or JavaScript files is changed. This way customers will always see up-to-date content.
Select a file URL as a minification source
To avoid probable issues with the file content encoding, you can specify URL as a minification source.
Move JavaScript to page footer
To make your site pages render properly the Magento Google page speed extension automatically places JavaScript to footer, thus letting useful content load much faster.