How wordpress plugin "WP Optimize" makes you fool

WhiteBirdER

Junior Member

Apr 29, 2015

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #1

When the site loads, the JavaScript files are loaded only if the user agent/browser is not Lighthouse/GTmetrix/Headless Chrome/Pingdom.


No JS = high scores. But for real users the scripts are loaded!

That is, the plugin for the sake of scoring misleads users and does not allow you to display the real picture. If you have it installed, I recommend uninstall it.

 

coolsheet

Senior Member

Mar 28, 2014

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #2

Yessir! 100% shit. There's a few on the market like that.

Nitropack has been notorious for this.

 

malayan

Power Member

Aug 26, 2020

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #3

Is this a premium plugin?

 

Kinu Actaz

Elite Member

May 13, 2020

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #4

I had used this plugin in the past, nothing improved, so I uninstalled it.

 

TomTheCat

Elite Member

Oct 27, 2019

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #5

You see this @RoiBox?

 

JessiPinkme

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Feb 24, 2019

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #6

what about wp-rocket ? any insight on that ?

 

sageshark

Marketplace Moderator

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Apr 22, 2022

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #7

I use it to delete the excess images in my server. So if I uninstall it, is there any other plugin you guys recommend to delete extra unused images?

I appreciate your suggestions. Thank you!

 

Dopious

Elite Member

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Apr 4, 2009

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #8

TomTheCat said:

You see this @RoiBox?

Click to expand...

Yes, posted about it yesterday and on tuesday on my profile .. =)

 

code API

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Oct 20, 2018

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #9

Looks like an absolute shit!

 

WhiteHatCoder

Regular Member

Dec 7, 2020

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• Sep 1, 2022

• #10

Huh ... Thanks for share, but this could have be done server side, so it is easy to hide...

But to be fair sometimes those stats pages are full of shit, If you have reliable fast hosting
and site load fast then those stats do not mean much.

And to say in their defense JS is still minified and deffered, so they did their best with JS as possible.

I use Jetpack with all modules disables except image CDN, autoptimize and cashing w3 total cache...
All free.