Hi Mike,
Purchased JCH Optimize pro version and did some testing with it,
In the template the compression off and used the plugin
Was working on the Spectrum template, started from a pagesize of 1,44 mb reduced it to 662 kb
Loading time from 5,06 sec. to under 3 sec. and reduced the request from 52 to 22. See image... Did nothing on the layout itself, only tweaking.
All still working fine, in all browsers, maybe it can improved more but experienced some problems with the image in the iacf. So gonna leave it like this.. it is a acceptable score for this kind of homepage with several scripts. and an iacf.
However I noticed the improved .htacces did not speed up much more using the plugin.
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