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.

Fast fix



Posted on 08 May 2015
Functionality
OK
Ease of use
OK
Support
I've got hel just in one hour.
Documentation
Functionality
Do what it says and dose it good, well great.
Ease of use
You do need to know what you are doing, but if you do, the results are amazing (read more at the bottom).
Support
Didn't need it, but they are very responsive (I am using the pro version).
Documentation
Very detailed one.
I used this to: I use the PRO version, which helped me reduce my DOMcontentload from around 900ms to somewhere around 400-500ms (cache is on tested without AdSense) and fully load to 1.3sec. On mobile, the loading improved dramatically and saved me the need for a dedicated mobile site.
Functionality
I could not enable minifying CSS and JS without also merging them. Merging CSS files missed out some for some reason.
Ease of use
Fairly straightforward to try.

Very good result



Posted on 21 April 2015
Functionality
Really works great. Good result for the google speed inside.
Ease of use
Install and put on.
Support
Helps really quick with a question. Very good knowledge of the materie.
Documentation
I used this to: My own site.
Functionality
Tried many extensions accelerate the work, but stop there.
Ease of use
Very easy to use and beginners and professionals
Support
Good support - had no problems.
Documentation
I used this to: I use for three our sites
Functionality
Free version is fine, but pro is just amazing. Google loves fast websites and with this plug-in Google will give you thumbs up.
Ease of use
Few clicks and you will have a lightning fast site.
Support
Documentation
I used this to: All my clients sites.

Review of extension



Posted on 27 March 2015
Functionality
Do more then expected.
Ease of use
Kinda easy had no problem.
Support
Had 1 question answered fast
Documentation
Good. But made everything without it :)
I used this to: We are creating a database of veterinary, animal husbandry and pet care product manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers. Use it on my site.
Functionality
A lot of features to compress css, javascript, minification, etc
Ease of use
Just install and configure it, it's a matter of few minutes. Just found some conflicts with other extensions using javascript not solved
Support
They tried to solve conflicts but was not possible, in some cases i had to keep the plugin disabled
Documentation
What's needed
I used this to: All my websites, especially to optimize on mobile
Functionality
Unlike many such optimizers for previous Joomla versions, this one offers more options, works flawlessly and you can measure actual resuls
Ease of use
Pretty straightforward. If you know what you want, all the options are there, mostly as easy ON/OFF switches.
Documentation
Everything is documented well enough in tooltips, didn't need more than that.
I used this to: As a faculty webmaster, I work in an environment where every single percent of additional compression, optimization and bandwidth saving is important. This plugin does an awesome job out of the box, and will probably do even better once I test those really advanced options.

Amazing Support



Posted on 16 March 2015
Functionality
I had a bit of trouble getting the settings optimized, so paid for the Pro version and got AMAZING support. A very worthwhile investment!
Ease of use
The developer made it quite easy to try different configurations by setting up 6 different 'automatic settings' to test with.
Support

JCH Optimize

Version:
9.0.2
Developer:
Samuel Marshall
Last updated:
Feb 05 2025
6 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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