ScriptMerge plugin

The ScriptMerge plugin is a Joomla! System Plugin that merges all the CSS stylesheets and JavaScript files on your Joomla! page into one single file, which means that the browser only needs to download one single file - optimizing the bandwidth needed for your site.

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Backgrounds

When optimizing a Joomla! site, many things should be dealt with: Caching should be enabled, PNG-images should be indexed, unneeded Joomla! plugins need to be disabled. But another important trick to speed up your site is to limit the number of HTTP requests made by the browser to load the Joomla! webpage.

The Yireo ScriptMerge plugin performs this trick by altering the Joomla! body-content just before it's sent to the browser. Existing HTML-tags pointing to CSS-stylesheets and JavaScript-files are interpreted, the corresponding file is read and cached and the original HTML-tag is removed from the Joomla! body.

There are various other plugins available doing the same job, but in our tests these plugins did not fullfill the job: They were either written using an older coding standard (without a JPlugin-class) or not checking things properly (for instance whether CSS-files were actually readable). Our ScriptMerge plugin does the job, but just a bit better.

Installation and usage

Check the usage guide for more information.

Support

Questions related to this plugin can be placed on our Yireo Support Forum.

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Changelog

Version 0.9.1

• Fix of exclude CSS-files and JS-files

Version 0.9.0

• Extra component to allow for filelist-based merging
• New merge-type filelist for compatibility with full page caching
• Addition of Joomla! 1.6 update URL

Details of earlier versions are unfortunately not available. ScriptMerge was first released in 2008.

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