I see a lot of great reviews for this extension. While it does work well for me, it appears to be provide no benefit over RokGZipper besides the addition of compression. While the compression does seem important and did increase my YSlow score by 6 points it provides no improvement on joomlaperformance.com. In fact, RokGZipper out performs CssJsCompress on joomlaperformance.com for my site.

Guys this was great! I now score 92 on yslow.
Almost all my files are compressed into one and i didn't had a single problem.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much for making this extremely difficult subject so easy to take care of.

Pay attention this plugin will make your editor in sobi2 entry invisible.If u have a description field in sobi 2 based on a editor like tiny mc or jce or any editor it will disappear once you install this plugin.Man i am sorry, it is a good plugin but it takes me many hours to correct the damage that this plugin made to my website.Please repair the bug to enjoy this plugin.

on my website (just some slideshow and popup) is working like a charm. I compared 3 compressors... for me this was the best choice. Thanks guys

Before I installed this plug-in, my YSlow Ranking was E and after I installed the plug-in I ranked better, I went from E to D, not perfect yet but improving.
It compress javascript files better then other plug-ins I installed before.

Very good plugin. Easy to install and use. It does exactly what it says. But unfortunately I can't use this. My built in drop down menu (megamenu) stops working if enabled. I use Ja purity II theme. Wold be very thankful if anyone tells me which file(s) to exclude. I've tryed to find them myself but no way. Want to use this very much, thank you for this great plugin!

This is very useful, and realy does what it say but there is some problems (with its sugestions to fix below) whitch are listed bellow

Default order is Dummy, the default order make no sense because the default order must BE THE ORDER WHICH THE FILES WAS LOADED BEFORE

Does not compress inline scripts and styles,

The jQuery compatibility is bugged too.

But still the best cache plugin, hope that the next version could make it even better. My suggestions are
remove that default order param, make jquery compatibility work or remove it & compress inline styles and scripts

This is very good, it works nicely.

I had a problem in a first moment because i didn't understand that there shouldn't be any space between the separated JS and some JS for IE6 only didn't get excluded.

I have a little issue still, i would like to compress also the css for print, but since it has different styles than the screen css they can't be toghether in one file, so i think an option that let compress also the some excluded css a part would be the GREAT.

Nice out of the box experience. Onlty thing you have to pay attention is some js and css you don't want to cache, but it is a really easy to set up in the component. Super useful! Recommend it to all that value the speed of their product!

Installed, but on frontend got a bunch of errors that the CssJsCompress files did not exist.
Checked plugins>system and there were no CssJsCompress files. So, this plugin does not even install properly.

Don't bother with this component.

As much as I prefer to not write bad reviews...

Had problems breaking JavaSacipt items. E.g. CB tabs and drop downs.

I first was so anxious to add it. It was fine. But pages when they load images fail to load. Then when I used Yslow to see the insight, I found it is not gzipping both JS and CSS though I activated it in the configuration.

This drastically reduced the number of requests and the size of my javascript and css files.

I also went ahead and compiled my own version of a compressed MooTools. On my own, I compressed MooTools to 40kb.

What did CssJsCompress do? Shrunk all of my js scripts to 24 kb. When I quit being lazy, I'll compress the other scripts loaded by Joomla by default - I'm imagining I might be able to squeeze and reduce the overall size to 16 kb of js.

Bottom line, CssJsCompress helped me reduce page sizes by a little more than 100 kb, and shaved my requests by at least 30.

There were a few scripts that didn't work with CssJsCompress turned on, but thankfully, CssJsCompress allows you to disable certain scripts from being included in the compression process - which makes the scripts work as intended.

I would recommend this to anyone. My average site response time is now under 4 seconds because of CssJsCompress.

I just loved this plugin, now my site shoots like the way I wanted it to.

this is a really great plugin, shortens your page-load time and merges css files together..

i tried it first at my localhost, made a big mess of my local site, but i said, what the heck, all these people can't be wrong, lets see how it will do on a real site.. so i installed it on my full-of-js site, and it worked great! with all the options enabled.. quite unexpected!..

it changed my yslow rating from 73 to 89.. many thanks to the developer..

Love this plugin - a must have!

I let my benchmark speak to me:
Native core cache: enabled.
Template: Default template of joomla 1.5.
Fresh installation of joomla 1.5.

Without CssJsCompress / With CssJsCompress
Number of requests: 9 / 3
Time to load page: 2000ms / 700ms
Page weight: (about) 32kB / 32kB

So with CssJsCompress the number of requests and the time to load page are divided by 3 !

It's incredible !

Why this plugin is not in the Joomla core ?!!!

Thank you very much for this great plugin that is very very usefull and efficient !

I give you 10 stars even if they are not all displayed.

Just by installing and enabling this plugin my site improved from a grade C to a grade A in the Yslow small site or blog test.
6 css files were combined into one ccs.gz file.
Excellent

Ive istalled in plugn in minutes.Now my site runs much Faster!!!Bofore i was manualy compressig he css and js and it was taking so much time.Also if i was installing a new plugin or component i needed to hack its js and css requests and put them to the main file.

Now i can make my templates with more than one css files, and i dont have to worry about combining them into one.CssJsCompress Dramaticly increased the speed of my site.Thank you!