Reducing the overall size of JavaScript can improve page load performance.
Recommendations
- Regularly remove unnecessary functionality, including plugins.
- Enable caching and compression for JS files (explained in more detail in other sections).
- Minify JS files
- Combine the contents of all files into just one or two.
- Load content later when it isn’t immediately needed.
Related Plugins
- Autoptimize (free plugin)
- WP Rocket (requires a paid subscription)
- LiteSpeed Cache (provided by some web hosts)