Thanks Alex,
The Good News:
now that the Autoptimize docs have been updated it is a lot clearer what needs to be set – although there are a few minor differences with the settings on my (up to date) version of Autoptimize: in my version, there is an option at the bottom ‘Also optimize for logged-in users?’, which I left disabled, and ‘Remove Google Fonts’ is on a separate tab ‘Extras’, which also includes options ‘Remove Emojis’ and ‘Remove Query Strings From Static Resources’, which I have both enabled.
With those current settings and WP Super Cache (and enabling browser caching in .htaccess) I have got a Pingdom score of 92 for my home page (which doesn’t load the GD map) and load times of under 1 sec. Very happy with that!
The Less Good News:
The original error page appears with CDN enabled in WP Super Cache. Given performance without CDN I think I will cancel my CDN until such time as I work on global conquest – it just seems to add a layer of complexity that I don’t need for little gain.
Thanks,
Adrian