Title: Critical CSS Plugin
Last modified: February 21, 2019

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# Critical CSS Plugin

 *  Resolved [renatefink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renatefink/)
 * (@renatefink)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-css-plugin/)
 * Hi there!
    I installed the critical css plugin, got an API key but there are 
   no rules. Because I have no idea about technic I had hoped that the plugin creates
   automatic rules, so my page loads faster. Could you please give me additional
   help? Thank you 🙂
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcritical-css-plugin%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-css-plugin/#post-11230008)
 * Morning Renate;
    The rules will indeed be automatically created, but it will 
   take some time for them to start showing up on the settings screen. I’m currently
   working on an update to make that more clear.
 * Additionally: I had a quick look at your site’s homepage HTML and and it seems
   like you currently don’t have Autoptimize’s “inline & defer”-option active, you
   will have to activate that to allow the rules to work.
 * Kind regards,
    frank

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-css-plugin/#post-11230008)
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