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CSS Optimizer – Remove Unused CSS

Clean up and remove unused CSS from your website. Also generates Critical CSS to improve PageSpeed Score.

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Tested up to WordPress 5.9
Current version1.7
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 5.9
Minimum stackWP 4.7 · PHP 5.1
Directory statusactive
Last directory update16 Mar 20224y ago
Active installations100Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.7 / 5 from 6 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records CSS Optimizer – Remove Unused CSS version 1.7 as active, updated 4y ago and tested up to WordPress 5.9.

Overview

About this plugin

“Remove Unused CSS” is frequently flagged in Google’s PageSpeed Insights. Indeed, most scenario, around 70% – 80% of a page’s CSS codes are redundant, and can be removed without affecting the overall visual. This happens mainly because WordPress themes and plugins are created as generic solutions that includes a bunch of features that may or may not be used on a particular page.

Example: A theme may come with a bunch of features such as slider, carousel, animation and etc, but your home page may use only the slider feature and your about page may use only the carousel feature. However, for practical reason, it’s virtually impossible to selectively include only the required CSS rules for the features that were enabled on a particular page.

This is where the CSS Optimizer becomes useful. The plugin make calls to ZippiSite ‘s CSS Optimizer API to find the required CSS rules on a particular page, and remove the ones that are not needed.

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  • critical css
  • autoptimize
  • speed
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Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 5.9

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 5.9.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to5.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.7 · PHP 5.1
Update activity16 Mar 20224y ago

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