12 years 12 hours ago
Well Paul,
Since you asked!

Here is my report.
Note: To see this you will have to login to the front end at
drcarney.com with a preview user I created:
login: previews
password: CheckItOut
I have been playing with it most of the day and learned more than I ever thought I wanted to. Still have some problems and could probably use some sleuthing like Vietvu did for witraze.
I have played with many different combinations and found my site breaking and being fixed etc... until I found all the settings that kept my site working and gave me as much as I could get without a bit more help. (Although I also had to add some code to my .htaccess file as well that Rob gave me in a ticket which was designed to prevent the CloudFront CDN from not displaying images. Apparently it is a browser by browser thing where the browser does not want to display font-icons and ZenTools navagation icons coming from a different domain.
The code he gave me was as follows:
<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff)$">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
I am attaching four images for you to look at:
With the Basic Options I was able to turn on most of what they want turned on except for the option to Minify javascript and the option to Defer javascript. Both of those options break my site:
If I defer javascript then the MegaMenu breaks and does not display. Also, the top menu I created loses all of it's hyperlinks. And, the ZenTools grid on the homepage soft of falls apart and I end up with extra rows and some of them only displaying one item.
As well there is only one setting I can set for the Position combined javascript field which is "First found javascript tag". If I select the option for 'after last found javascript tag' or for 'at the end of body' the MegaMenu again breaks.
Even though I have successfully got the settings to state they are combining CSS into one fiie and js into one file the report from YSlow states that I fail on "Make fewer HTTP requests" because I have 29 external javascript scripts and 14 external background images.
It also says that I have 8 external background images that I should put in a sprite. But, if I turn on the sprite the black overlay image stops being visible as a background image when I scroll up the page. Interestingly that is the ONLY image on the page that is NOT REPEATING and so the only image that JCE suggests should be in a sprite. I have just left this off for now.
In the advanced settings I have been able to Exclude all extensions without anything breaking so I am happy about that. At least nothing is broken that I am aware of. I am NOT able to turn on the Use htaccess option even though I should be able to because when I do the font-icons in the social media module at the top break (become not visible and show garbage characters) and also the ZenTools Prev and Next icons don't work. Also, the little icon in front of the breadcrumb trail and the RSS icon display garbage characters.
So, that is about it. I hope this is helpful. After going through this exercise I thought that if JoomlaBamboo could figure out how to set up JCE Optimize with all templates and could give instructions it might be a real great service that I suspect is not coming from other template houses. It would be nice if all templates were JCE Optimize friendly.
Google Page Speed give me a better report card than YSlow but also tells me that I need to leverage browser caching. So, I would sure like to know how to turn on the caching. JCH Optimize has the ability to set that to 30 days for the aggregated files but I need to know how to do it for all images, and other objects.
I am very impressed with JCE Optiimize! That said, the YSlow report seems to indicate that the css and js aggregation may not be working properly for me.
Thanks for listening!
Sean