things by Tomasz Dobrzyński

web developer / Łódź, Poland

Looking for WordPress speed?

Did you know that plugins like slider, map or contact form load CSS and JS files on each page? Did you know they are busting your website performance and negatively affect page speed score? What did you do to eliminate unwanted CSS/JS from places where WordPress plugins are not used? Nothing? Say hello to Gonzales.

This plugin allows you to get rid of CSS and JavaScript files that are simply useless. Less is better, right? One of the biggest problems of modern websites is large amount of data transferring to visitors. It's not a big deal if you send content like text or images but have you ever wondered what percent of entire package are styles and scripts? That's a real problem - to achieve compromise between performance and informations, you must optimize content efficiently. In other words you have to eliminate useless downloads (e.g. removing scripts and stylesheets added by Contact Form 7 from pages where is not used).

This WordPress plugin do not remove any files from server - it's completly safe speeding up tool. Gonzales disable them while WordPress parse PHP code.

Sample Gonzales optimization

How it's possible?

Gonzales is not another clone of WordPress performance plugin. So what’s the difference between this and other optimization tools? It truly gets rid of problem by excluding JS/CSS from HTML code while other speed up plugins only mask problem - they use compression/merging method to minimize website size but still contain usless CSS and JS. It means other plugins send to visitors browser useless files which affect website performance.

Gonzales uses brand new way of WordPress optimization which other plugins do not use. I don't want you to uninstall other awesome tools like Cache Enabler, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache or WP Rocket - Gonzales works with them symbiotically and you don't need to configure anything! Nice way to speed up WordPress, huh?

How it works? Step by step...

• PHP parse WordPress core
• Gonzales search for CSS and JS files
• Gonzales remove files marked by you as disabled from HTML source
• Other plugins preprocess page (caching, etc.)
• WordPress send code to browser

So... how to speed up WordPress?

Just play video below :) I prepared you detailed step by step video tutorial in which I explain how to install, configure and speed up your WordPress website. Rewind to 11:21 to see before/after optimization effects.

In case you didn't watch video above I prepared few words how to make your website faster. It doesn’t take a genius to use Gonzales. Log in to your WordPress as administration and go to your home page. If plugin is correctly enabled in the top of WordPress menu you should see new item called “Gonzales”. That's the only interested place - no hidden panels or complicated settings pages. Place cursor over menu. You should see something like that: One of the greatest feature of this plugin is that you can disable JS/CSS for entire site or on particular pages. What does it mean? Let’s take a look at common cases:

• Contact Form 7 generates form only on /contact page but its JS/CSS loads everywhere, even on front page.
  Go to http://YOUR_SITE/contact and open Gonzales menu. Search for “contact-form-7” entries and from submenu click “Disable everywhere” and “Enable here”.
• Sociable plugin generates social icons everywhere except front page but its CSS/JS loads even there
  Go to front page and open Gonzales menu - Search for “sociable” entries and from submenu click “Enable everywhere” and “Disable here”.

There's long list of actions you must take to achieve great performance results but they need a lot of your attention. I suppose your time is precious and highly limited so here is what I recommend to read once you buy Gonzales: “How to move scripts to bottom with or without W3 Total Cache”. Hey, don't forget about PHP7 which is officially available since December 2015. Thanks new version of PHP7 you can get much better performance and depending on hosting you can enable it by adding one line to .htaccess or switching checkbox in administration section of hosting panel.

Pricing and support

You can read detailed Gonzales documentation explaining how to speed up WordPress in theory or take a look at Kevin Muldoon's review to understand how it works in real life (Kevin's website case):

License? It's simple. If you own multiple websites or you are developer you can choose unlimited license ($99) and install it on all of websites you own/create. Feel free to select cheapest one ($29) if you are owner of one/two websites only. 10 websites license ($39) is great for small agencies. Let me know if you need more dedicated plans.

Once you buy Gonzales you will be able to use it as long as you want (no time limitation). Only support and updates are time limited. You should know everything about plugin now. It's time to purchase your copy and speed up WordPress!