Save the Google Analytics file (gtag.js / analytics.js) locally to be able to cache it for longer than 2 hours for a better PageSpeed score!
Often when trying to optimize the Google Pagespeed score, there is one script which still causing the ‘Leverage browser caching’ rule popping up: Google’s own gtag.js and/or analytics.js file…
With this plugin you will be able to cache this file on your local server and enable browser caching for longer than 2 hours. The plugin will check every day if there is a newer version of the file to keep the cache up to date.
Installation is very easy;
cache-external-scripts
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory or install it directly from the WordPress plugin directory.This plugin only caches the script and replaces it in your current Analytics code, containing ‘gtag.js’, ‘analytics.js’ or the older ‘ga.js’ script.
We chose not to insert the Analytics code itself because there are tons of plugins for that already, and some users require modifications in the code.
We store the cached file in the wordpress uploads
directory, in the folder called cached-scripts
. If this folder doesn’t exist or is empty, please visit the settings page of the plugin to manually fetch the script.
ga.js
script