Optimization Settings

Optimization settings allows you to configure the CSS, JavaScript, HTML etc optimization options of a template powered by VP Framework.

Style Sheet Optimization

Under this section you can configure Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) optimization for the template.

Style Sheet Optimization Settings
Enable Style Sheet Optimization

Enable or disable the CSS optimization system for the template. When enabled it reduces number of HTTP round-trips by combining multiple CSS resources into one. To improve the performance the combined CSS files are cached. Caching reduces the processing time.

During development of the site it is recommended that you disable 'Style Sheet Optimization' to avoid caching.

Minify CSS

Select the minification system which will be used to compress/minify CSS Style Sheets. If your site hosted on a shared server with very limited resources that it is recommended that you disable this feature or select 'Basic' option.

GZIP Compression

If yes, combined style sheet files are be served with GZIP Compression header to the browsers.

Exclude Style Sheets

Enter the style sheet file names or full urls separated by commna which you want to be excluded from CSS Optimization.

JavaScript Optimization

Under this section you can configure JavaScript (JS) optimization for the template.

JavaScript Optimization Settings
Enable JavaScript Optimization

Enable or disable the JavaScript optimization system for the template. When enabled it reduces number of HTTP round-trips by combining multiple CSS resources into one. To improve the performance the combined JavaScript files are cached. Caching reduces the processing time.

During development of the site it is recommended that you disable 'JavaScript Optimization' to avoid caching.

Minify JavaScript

Select the minification system which will be used to compress/minify JavaScript codes. If your site hosted on a shared server with very limited resources that it is recommended that you disable this feature to reduce server load.

GZIP Compression

If yes, combined JavaScript files are served with GZIP Compression header to the browsers.

Exclude JavaScripts

Enter the JavaScript file names or full urls separated by commna which you want to be excluded from JavaScript Optimization.

Exclude Deferred JavaScript

If yes, all JavaScript calls with 'defer' attribute will be excluded by the JavaScript optimization system.

Exclude Asynced JavaScript

If yes, all JavaScript calls with 'async' attribute will be excluded by the JavaScript optimization system.

HTML Optimization

Under this section you can configure HTML optimization options for the template.

HTML Optimization Settings
Minify HTML

If yes, HTML output is compressed/minified.

More Options

Under this section you can configure the other optimization options for the template.

More Optimization Settings
Remove Generator Tag

Joomla adds a 'generator' meta tag to all Joomla site which allows hackers/crawlers to know the exact CMS running behind your site. This can be a very serious secuirty concern for some site. If you enable this option then this meta tag will be removed from the HTML output of your site.


<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! - Open Source Content Management" />