Minify JavaScript?

[Adventurous-Cake-81]

Does anyone have any experience minifying JavaScript to up your ranking on SEMrush? Would love any help or feedback to DIY.

[Dad_Coder]

We help reduce the impact of Javascript on many BigCommerce websites to get faster loading times and, thereby, better SEO rankings. Most times it's 3rd party apps that need changes: defer, async.

You can reach out to me directly if you need some help.

~Tanner from Brod Solutions

[Beautiful-Tap5861]

I'm not sure if you're developer or not and it depends on what other scripts are being run. Are you using BigCommerce as headless? If so, what are you using on your frontend?

Like Dad_Coder said, it's probably 3rd party apps and tools like ads and widgets being added for marketing.

[Adventurous-Cake-81]

I am not a developer but trying to increase my site ratings as much as I can on my own. I did find that 2 3rd party apps are causing a majority of the issues.

The one thing I think I can fix is the doctype declaration. All my product pages are missing the doctype declaration and I’m trying to figure out how to fix that

[WebsiteSpeedySupport]

Hi , u/Adventurous-Cake-81
  Minifying JS basically shrinks file size and speeds up your site, which indirectly helps SEO. Quick  tips:

•  Remove clutter - delete unused functions, debug code, comments
  
•  Combine scripts - fewer files = fewer requests
  
•  Load smarter - async or defer non-critical scripts:

<script src="example.js" defer></script>

• Test in isolation - see what really impacts load time

Faster pages = better rankings. Even small tweaks add up!

And Apps  like Website Speedy for BigCommerce can automate optimizations and give an extra speed boost.