How do I Minify my Javascript, cache JavaScript and compress JavaScript and CSS files?

[beestieboy73]

Just completed a SEMrush analysis and this is what came back

Minify your JavaScript and CSS files.
Uncached JavaScript and CSS files

Uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files

Can I do this with a weebly site? How do I do this?

[Bernadette3]

Thanks for posting, @beestieboy73 I'm not sure on the answer, but I'll check with someone who may know. Thanks!

[AussieDaz]

Any answers on this?

Google says to ask the service provider "Weebly" to compress the CSS and JS on their servers

[Adam7]

There isn't really a way to do this yourself, @AussieDaz, since it's something we would need to do ourselves globally. While it can provide a bit of a performance increase, it's not usually vital to do for website speed compared to other changes around content itself.

[KelL1e]

Hi, I also had this come up on my SEMRush. A lot of code on my page is referning to how to handle the shop and products, but I am not an ecommerce site. 

I'm not a developer, so I can't write code, is there anyway for the templates to hide these lines of code if you don't have a shop? 

[Adam7]

This is partly the nature of using a tool like Weebly or a different builder; sometimes so of the code we load with a page isn't being used but it's there anyway in case you enable the feature. 

[Black_Swan]

Hi Adam, your argument seems logical, since this is the main reason for us to use Weebly: Easy and flexible websites.

Very heavy, but you can't have it all.

I have a suggestion though:

Weebly can offer just one super fast theme with the very basic css and java scripts and html code. Light as a feather.

No moving headers, no colour overlays, no sticky navigation to enable, just black and white and 5 more colours, plain and fast css code and java.

Could you offer such an easy solution?

[Bernadette3]

As far as I know, there's no additional plans to change the way the editor currently works. We really do appreciate your feedback, though, @Black_Swan  

[WolverineGlass]

I came across this post because my small Weebly site was flagged by SEMrush, WooRank and MOZ analysis for the exact same reason and I'm trying to find a solution. I received 24 unminified JavaScript and CSS files, 18 uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files, and 18 uncached JavaScript and CSS files.

I can appreciate your response saying these issues aren’t vital to a site's speed. I agree that graphic weight is a larger issue. However, these reported errors DO have an impact on a site's search ranking. Everything I research on SEO tells me that page loading speed directly impacts my site's search rankings/results, especially where mobile is concerned (65% of my traffic).

I view my paid hosting relationship with Weebly as a partnership. I do my part, Weebly does its part, and we cross the finish line together. My success = Weebly's success. Yes?

According to a 10/24/2019 article on digital dot com, Weebly hosts approximately 30 million web sites. Since every site hosted on Weebly's platform is impacted by this issue, seems to me that minifying, compressing and caching JavaScript and CSS files would be a worthwhile effort because, as you said, it's global, and affects everyone!

I really think Weebly should be stepping up to take care of this, since I can't personally minify, compress and cache the linked JavaScript and CSS files connected to my site template, as you mentioned previously.

[winklhawk]

Squarespace doesn't have this issue.  Since Weebly doesn't seem to want to address this, we should all migrate.

[WildEmu]

Currently exploring this - many thanks! The hours I've wasted trying to get my Weebly sites to perform I could have just rebuilt them in Squarespace.