Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content

  • (I haven’t upgraded to 4.5 due to the variety of complaints I’ve seen posted.)

    There are extra JavaScript files served from yourwebsite.com. They should be combined into as few files as possible. Could someone please tell me why these javascript files could not be reduced in number or be moved to the footer core so that the page would render more quickly and make the Google bot and Google gods happy? Please advise. Thank you for your time.

    Could core one day combine your javascript and css? plugins and core? Thank you for your time and thoughts and for putting this idea into the right hands.

    /wp-includes/js/comment-reply.min.js?ver=4.4.3
    /wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1
    /wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.3
    /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/mediaelement-and-player.min.js?ver=2.18.1-a
    /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/wp-mediaelement.js?ver=4.4.3
    /wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js?ver=4.4.3
    /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js?ver=4.4.3

    stated a different way – put any wordpress site into Google’s pagespeed tool (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/) and you’ll get teh above mentioned and the following mentioned.
    Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
    Your page has XX blocking script resources and XX 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.

    Prioritize visible content
    Your page requires additional network round trips to render the above-the-fold content. For best performance, reduce the amount of HTML needed to render above-the-fold content.
    The entire HTML response was not sufficient to render the above-the-fold content. This usually indicates that additional resources, loaded after HTML parsing, were required to render above-the-fold content. Prioritize visible content that is needed for rendering above-the-fold by including it directly in the HTML response.
    Only about 9% of the final above-the-fold content could be rendered with the full HTML response see screenshot.

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