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.

great plugin!



Posted on 07 September 2010
... but breaking font-face in firefox and also can cause java/ajax collision, for example I used rokslideshow + camp26 fisheyemenu and anyhow only one or the other works but not both same time.

Fantastic



Posted on 05 September 2010
Had my site loading very slowly and thanks to this extension and a little tweaking of the options, not only has it drastically improved the speed - it kept my layouts and external components intact! Thank you so much!

Great Plugin



Posted on 03 September 2010
My site was loading terribly slow. I installed this plugin and used the default settings and it increased the load speed of my site by at least 60%. Definitely recommended.

Good plug-in



Posted on 03 September 2010
Excellent tool, good work !

To "spilios", me too, I have problem with the slideshow (using rockslideshow - images don't appear).

Set the "minify javascript" to "No" and the slideshow will work normally.

Very good...



Posted on 27 August 2010
When i activated the plugin i noticed huge decrease in loads!this really works.Altough i got a little problem which forced me to disable it temporary(i hope)When i enable it my frontpage slideshow content doesnt load up...any ideas how to fix this?
Owner's reply: Despite best efforts, the default parameters probably won't work for everyone. There are a number of options in the back-end configurations to tune the plugin to your specific requirements.

If you're having problems, please request assistance by submitting a support ticket before reviewing or rating. Thanks.

Excellent



Posted on 22 August 2010
Excellent plugin. It delivers what it promised and axceeded my expectation. It worked with no problems at all, good documentation, and support. you guys really made a quality product here. Also it has all the parameters so that users can cutomize it for pretty much any custom needs for their site. This is something other plugins did not have

really cool



Posted on 18 August 2010
man, it's a considerable improvement of performance of site. Really great job!

Fantastic



Posted on 05 August 2010
This is one of the best joomla extension available, it's a must have for seo: firebug and I love it! :)

Only One Problem



Posted on 16 July 2010
First I wanna say that it does exactly what it says... unless you're using Internet Explorer. I don't, of course. But the majority of my users do. I have a ticker trying to get them to go to Firefox or Opera.

Anyway, when activated, it disrupts the javascript of of some elements. For example, my Joomlaworks "All Videos" and "Tabs and Slides" don't work. When disabled, they work fine. Like I said, this is only in Internet Explorer. In Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari, it works fine. I changed each option one by one but it made no difference. The only thing that helped was to disable it.



Unfortunately, because of the existence of Internet Explorer, I had to remove it. Even though I totally hate IE, it's still the most popular browser.



So to sum it up: this is a problem with Internet Explorer and not the plugin's fault. But others I've used are compatible with IE... so I really don't know where the bug lies. Either way, it does what it says in Firefox, so I still give it 5 stars.

Incredible plugin



Posted on 16 July 2010
This is simply one of the best joomla plugins you can have. Should make any site run significantly faster in just a few minutes set up time. Just make sure to publish it last amongst your system plugins (2nd to last if you are using the cache plugin) to maximize the results.

JCH Optimize

Version:
9.0.2
Developer:
Samuel Marshall
Last updated:
Feb 05 2025
8 months ago
Date added:
Nov 18 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J4 J5
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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