Automattic / Automattic/jetpack

Boost: Create a way to disable page verification for critical CSS.

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[Boost Feature] Critical CSS [Plugin] Boost [Status] Stale
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Description

Page verification allows us to make sure that critical CSS is not generating for an unrelated or WAF page. But, it can also create problems in different situations like, cached pages, redirects that remove the URL parameter, etc. To avoid that, we need to explore if we can disable the page verification on demand.

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Research direction

Start by tracing Boost's critical CSS page-verification flow and how it handles cached pages and redirects that remove the URL parameter. Define an on-demand disable mechanism and verify that page verification can be bypassed only when requested without weakening normal checks.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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