ScriptMerge - Combine all your CSS and JavaScript
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.
Software information
| License | GNU/GPL |
| Price | Free |
| Current version | 0.9.3 |
| Current status | Stable |
| Requirements |
 Joomla! 1.5.15 or higher
 Joomla! 1.6.0 or higher
 Joomla! 1.7.0 or higher
 Joomla! 2.5.0 or higher
PHP 5.2.8 or higher |
| Download |
plg_scriptmerge_j15.zip
plg_scriptmerge_j25.zip
com_scriptmerge_j15.zip
com_scriptmerge_j25.zip |
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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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