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Combine CSS and Cache Dynamic CSS Automptimize
4 replies · Started by Rylan Urban on December 3, 2020
Hello,
I recently noticed that Cache dynamic CSS and Combine CSS are options in my customize.
I'm currently combining CSS via Autoptimize and using dynamic caching via Siteground / Cloudflare. So, do these options offer additional benefit?
Thanks,
Rylan
Hi,
Customizer's Combine CSS option only combines unsemantic-grid.css, style.css and mobile.css meaning it combines stylesheets of GP and GP Premium only.
Learn more about it here here:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/combine-css/
Meanwhile, optimization plugins that aggregate/merge style all of the stylesheets from the theme and all of the plugins in one file.
That said, it won't matter that much if you use combine theme related CSS since autoptimize combines all in one anyway.
Thanks! Sounds like I'm good then.
And what about the "Cache dynamic CSS" option? Is this necessary / does it offer a benefit if I'm already using dynamic caching through Siteground/Cloudflare?
It likely won't make much of a difference if things are already being cached. Of course, you can do a quick speed test to compare the two to make sure :)
