Autoptimize css Only Render Blocking File Left

Hi Steve;
There’s info in the FAQ about render-blocking CSS, do look at that for ways to solve this.

Hope this helps,
frank

Hi Frank, thanks for the quick response. I’ve read through the FAQ and I’m still not understanding what is happening. I installed ticked optimize html, javascript, css and added by CDN base url…

…I’m getting the following feedback from Google Page Insights and Pingdom Web Page Test. Should the cached Autoptimize be render blocking css?

GOOGLE PAGE INSIGHTS(https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcounselling-chorley.org.uk%2F&tab=desktop):

Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 1 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:

https://4277re2n6w561hy8sj3avdtmo6o.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/9/css/autoptimize_cca0220ee832b7cacb00130863d3d949.css

PINGDOM WEB PAGE TEST (https://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/eHbFqj/https://counselling-chorley.org.uk/):

Remove query strings from static resources

Resources with a “?” in the URL are not cached by some proxy caching servers. Remove the query string and encode the parameters into the URL for the following resources:

https://counselling-chorley.org.uk/wp-content/themes/canvas/includes/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=4.0.3

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks
Steve

Well, you should consider either the “inline & defer CSS” or “inline all CSS” option. There is info about that in the FAQ (questions 4, 5 and 6). “inline all CSS” is the easiest, “inline & defer CSS” the most performant solution.

The “remove query string”-remark is not really related to Autoptimize, but there’s a plugin that does just that.

hope this helps,
frank

I had to inline all CSS in the end for it to work. Thank you very much for the support. Regards, Steve.