Title: Autoptimize not render blocking or minifying one CSS
Last modified: December 20, 2016

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# Autoptimize not render blocking or minifying one CSS

 *  Resolved [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/)
 * Followed video on Critical Path CSS and followed some things in the support forum
   and now I have one CSS left in two different spots. How can I get rid of this
   3rd party. I’ve seen something here in the support forums but didn’t look like
   it was in reference to my situation.
 * Mach8.Com
 * 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.
 * [http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css](http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css)
 * Minify CSS
    Compacting CSS code can save many bytes of data and speed up download
   and parse times. Minify CSS for the following resources to reduce their size 
   by 1.5KiB (26% reduction).
 * [http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css](http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css)

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8573565)
 * this is normal behavior; AO can’t touch external (as in hosted on a 3rd party
   server) JS or CSS [@soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/).
 * hope this clarifies,
    frank
 *  Thread Starter [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8573751)
 * I thought there was a tweek or something? My mobile score seems awfully low at
   a 79 because of this. Could I be missing something else that’s slowing my speed
   down. Thought I could at least get into the 80’s.
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8573816)
 * > I thought there was a tweek or something?
 * no tweak for that in autoptimize, no.
 * > My mobile score seems awfully low at a 79 because of this. Could I be missing
   > something else that’s slowing my speed down. Thought I could at least get into
   > the 80’s.
 * well, what other recommendations does GPSI show? you should look at the details
   there, those are the real nuggets, the total score is just there for gamification
   purpose 😉
 *  Thread Starter [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8574075)
 * I’ve seen people say that before.about the score. There’s nothing else. Plus 
   on other websites I’m all A’s. Thanks for your plugin!
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8574918)
 * ok, had a quick look and -at least on your HP- I can’t see jquery-ui.css being
   put to any use a all. probably be a stupid plugin which inserts this as dependancy
   even on pages where it’s not needed. you could use [the “plugin organizer”-plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/)
   to try to fix that.
 *  Thread Starter [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8576710)
 * I went plugin by plugin. It’s my WooCommerce. Man!
 *  Thread Starter [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8576830)
 * Oh by the way, the “plugin organizer” did nothing for or against, in this situation.
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8577044)
 * hmmm, maybe ask around the woocommerce community why jquery-ui.min.css is added
   and if/ how it can be safely removed (dequeued)?
 * alternatively (but somewhat … brute-force like) you can try removing it using
   this code snippet that hooks into AO’s API;
 *     ```
       add_filter('autoptimize_filter_css_removables','remove_jqueryui_css');
       function remove_jqueryui_css($in) {
         return $in.",themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css";
       }
       ```
   
 * additional reading; [https://gregrickaby.com/2013/05/remove-woocommerce-styles-and-scripts/](https://gregrickaby.com/2013/05/remove-woocommerce-styles-and-scripts/)
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/).
 *  Thread Starter [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8577119)
 * I’m definitely looking around for solutions. Would the code you have there allow
   woocommerce to work on my cart, checkout and shop pages? Also, I know you’re 
   very busy so thanks for all your help!
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8577145)
 * it would (should) only remove the jquery-ui.css, but no guarantees about how 
   well your site will do without it (although it seems pretty useless at first 
   sight) 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8577232)
 * I definitely think you’re right and can or should move on to my next project 
   lol. I have another topic for you but I probably should create another thread
   for that one right?
 *  Thread Starter [soonertuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soonertuff/)
 * (@soonertuff)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8577348)
 * Looks like my site at mach8.com is still functional and that snippet you gave
   me got me to 100/100 thanks so much, dayum I’m excited.
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-not-render-blocking-or-minifying-one-css/#post-8577517)
 * great! 🙂

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