Autoptimize
Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default but can also inline critical CSS and defer the aggregated full CSS, moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML. You can optimize and lazy-load images (with support for WebP and AVIF formats), optimize Google Fonts, async non-aggregated JavaScript, remove WordPress core emoji cruft and more. As such it can improve your site’s performance even when already on HTTP/2! There is extensive API available to enable you to tailor Autoptimize to each and every site’s specific needs. If you think performance indeed is important, you should at least consider one of the many free page caching plugins (e.g. Speed Booster pack or KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler) to complement Autoptimize or even consider Autoptimize Pro which not only has page caching but also image optimization, CDN, critical CSS and more! Autoptimize Pro Autoptimize Pro is a premium Power-Up, adding image optimization, CDN, page caching, automatic critical CSS rules and extra “booster” options, all in one handy subscription to make your site even faster!! Premium Support We provide great Premium Support and Web Performance Optimization services with Accelera, check out our offering on https://accelerawp.com/! (Speed-surfing image under creative commons by LL Twistiti)
Load Combined Core Block Assets
This is a workaround for sites experiencing any issues with the ability introduced in WordPress 6.9 to load block styles on demand in classic themes. The known issues have been fixed during the 7.0 release cycle with the following commits: r61076: Script Loader: Fall back to hoisting late-printed styles to end of HEAD if wp-block-library is not enqueued. r61122: Script Loader: Load block styles on demand in classic themes even when wp-block-styles support is absent. r61174: Script Loader: Improve hoisted stylesheet ordering (in classic themes) to preserve CSS cascade. r61554: Script Loader: Preserve original CSS cascade for classic themes when hoisting late-printed styles. r61945: Script Loader: Refine hoisted stylesheet ordering to preserve original CSS cascade in classic themes. If running a classic theme (i.e. not a block theme), this plugin filters should_load_separate_core_block_assets to be false. This has the effect of reverting a change introduced in 6.9 where classic themes now load separate core block assets on demand by default. Note that this plugin should be considered temporary until any issues are resolved in 7.0. At any time, you can test whether any issues remain by adding ?should_load_separate_core_block_assets=true to any frontend URL; this restores the default behavior in WP 6.9. This workaround should be temporary because there are performance benefits to loading separate core block assets. They can be loaded on demand just when they are used, as opposed to loading the large single combined wp-block-library stylesheet. Loading separate block styles on demand reduces the amount of CSS which should improve page load time. Nevertheless, as explained in the dev note, some sites may be built in a way that fundamentally does not work with loading separate block styles on demand. For these sites, this plugin is available to retain the old behavior.
