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.

Functionality
Functionality is good. There are many functions available, you have to combine them cleverly
Ease of use
Very easy to use in general, but you have to be very careful with multiple functions
Support
JCH Optimize does not exist. They never respond on any platform, they have been responding for years. A bad joke.
Documentation
Corresponding, the descriptions are quite readable. It doesn't hurt to have experience
I used this to: I have used JCH Optimize, core and pro versions before, but due to the complete lack of support I am now looking for another solution.
Some of them respond to an email within a few minutes, and even provide a test option.
Functionality
The functionality is very extended, and though the options are easy to configure, you need to have SEO knowledge to know what you doing.
Ease of use
The basic stuff is very easy. The specialized stuff requires more knowledge
Support
This is great !!! Samuel helped me more than once with patience and experience. He just wants you to succeed with your implementation
Documentation
The documanetation is very extended as well. For both beginners and professionals it provides background information to set up the component
I used this to: This is quite obvious ... Optimizing our website to improve SEO and pagespeed
Functionality
Plenty of features and options, including CDN support and image optimization.
Ease of use
I had to tamper a lot with the options to figure out the best settings, much trial&error.
Support
Excellent support, Samuel really cares about his product and clients.
I used this to: A medium complexity client site with VM shop, two languages (Falang).
Functionality
Thanks to this extension, we improved our website Core Web Vitals score meaningfully.
Ease of use
Considering its potential, the extension is easy to use. You can always benefit from the module creator's technical support in case of need.
Support
The support is excellent, and you always receive the needed answers. The module is also regularly updated by its creator.
Documentation
The module comes with detailed documentation, which can help you onboard.
I used this to: We use the extension to improve our website Google's Core Web Vitals.
Functionality
Perfect extension, it has everything you need to optimize your website.
Ease of use
Very easy to use just enable everything for optimization and voila your website is optimized
Support
The developer was super friendly and spent a good amount of time debugging the site.
Documentation
I used this to: I used it on many websites and this extension never disappoints! and the developer of this extension is very helpful, he is always willing to go the extra mile and help!
Functionality
I use the Joomla for more than 15 years. I have tried so many extensions to speed up my website.
JCH Optimize is the best.
Ease of use
So easy, this extension provides a User-friendliness icon, just click 2-3 steps.
Support
The support team is very friendly, fast, and efficient to solve the problem and Improving Website Speed.
I used this to: Speed up my Joomla website, Improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Functionality
To me it is a great tool in improving site performance and boosting web core vital scores.
Ease of use
WARNING: when playing with the settings, especially JS settings, make sure you test features on your site like contact forms, etc after!
Support
Documentation
I used this to: Improving site performance and boosting my web core vitals score with Google.

La mejor inversión



Posted on 05 December 2022
Functionality
Gracias a versión premium, mi página web podrá volver a competir por los primeros puestos. ¡Google! ¡Hemos vuelto! Lástima no invertir antes
Ease of use
El plugin es bastante intuitivo y la versión de pago tiene algunas opciones extra que merecen la pena. Es cuestión de ir probando...
Support
Se me atascaba un poco el CLS y tenía problemas con el menú de móvil, fueron muy atentos, me ayudaron a resolver estos problemas. Un 10!!
Documentation
La verdad es que solo la miré por encima y algo puntual que me pasaron, por lo que vi parece estar bien.
I used this to: Siempre había usado JCH Optimize en la versión gratuita, pero al sufrir caídas en las SERPs de Google debido a la experiencia de usuario, me puse a trabajar. Uso Gantry, en el sitio que probé tengo joomla 3.10 y mi puntuación ahora, es de 100!!!!!

Still the best?



Posted on 12 November 2022
Functionality
Overt the years I have tried all the solutions out there and in the Joomla extensions directory, but I always come back to JCH Optimize.
Ease of use
Mostly easy. But you may have to tweak your .htaccess file and play with settings to get a smooth workable result so persevere!
Support
I presume support is okay, not really tried it, I like to solve all my own problems!
Documentation
Only gripe, since eberything else was clear in the online manual, was lack of any detail on how to set up CDN for cookieless domains.
I used this to: All joomla websites I host (currently circa 20) and speeding them all up. Once configured it typically more than halves the page load times
Functionality
Its sometimes hard to fit the optimal settings but with the help of the support I was able to make good speed improvements
Ease of use
It cannot be easier! You just have to push some buttons but you should understand what they are making.
Support
Outstanding. Thanks Samuel for your patience and great work! He is explaining everything very well and tries to find the optimal settings.
Documentation
Everything there whats needed - you can find a good documentation on the website
I used this to: Optimizing Page Speed for SEO and fit the Google Web Vitals and some other stuff

JCH Optimize

Version:
8.1.0
Developer:
Samuel Marshall
Last updated:
Oct 21 2023
4 months ago
Date added:
Nov 18 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c p
Compatibility:
J4 J5
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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