I am using jch_optimize with zenbase. I noticed that the following css files are being excluded form jch's cached gzip file.

Why are they being excluded? Is there a way to let them be included in jch's compression?

/templates/zenbase/css/custom.css
and
/templates/system/css/system.css

Sample page: www.modernmagic.com/blog.html

I'd check with the developer

Its not something I've used much and lots of JB users break their sites with it

Rob might now more and I will ask him if he has anything to add

Cheers
Paul

Paul,

Is there more compatible compression extension for JB templates?

Does everyone else not worry about compressing /templates/zenbase/css/custom.css and /templates/system/css/system.css ?

Hi Jeff,

I'm not sure exactly how the jch plugin works, but you could always compress the file by hand using something like www.minifycss.com/css-compressor/

You could also add the css to the themes template.less file in the theme folder and have it compiled with everything else.

This is probably a question for the jch developers though. I'm sure they probably have a good reason for leaving out the system.css file if it's used on 99% of all Joomla sites.

Regards,

Rob

Thinking about it again, it's probably because the custom.css file is hard coded into the template to ensure it loads last and overrules any other styles.

So it's not added to the head of the document in the standard Joomla way which is probably how jch picks up the other files and manipulates the output.

that makes sense.

I'm just trying to speed up the load time. If I could reduce the requests by eliminating the custom.css, it may help.

Good luck with it

Cheers
Paul