Title: Inline “above the fold CSS”
Last modified: December 21, 2020

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# Inline “above the fold CSS”

 *  Resolved [berrywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berrywhy/)
 * (@berrywhy)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-above-the-fold-css-2/)
 * Hello, I was getting the error below on pagespeed insights:
 * Remove dead rules from stylesheets and defer the loading of CSS not used for 
   above-the-fold content to reduce unnecessary bytes consumed by network activity.
   Learn more.
 * It was showing this file: …../wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize……..
   css
 * I enabled Inline “above the fold CSS” option and pasted the content of this css
   file. Is it ok and correct what I did? And how it will affect the performance
   of site?
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [berrywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berrywhy/).

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 *  Thread Starter [berrywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berrywhy/)
 * (@berrywhy)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-above-the-fold-css-2/#post-13819679)
 * I disabled it now because I can’t paste all of the content, why?
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-above-the-fold-css-2/#post-13820658)
 * “inline & defer CSS” is the solution for “render blocking content”, but “dead”
   rules refers to “unused CSS” which AO cannot fix as AO does not know what CSS
   is used and which is unused. there’s a 3rd party plugin + (paying) service that
   integrates with AO that does remove unused CSS though, have look at [https://wordpress.org/plugins/unusedcss/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/unusedcss/)
   maybe?
 * frank
 *  Thread Starter [berrywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berrywhy/)
 * (@berrywhy)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-above-the-fold-css-2/#post-13821319)
 * Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-above-the-fold-css-2/#post-13821331)
 * you’re welcome, feel free to [leave a review of the plugin and support here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/#new-post)!
   🙂
 * have a nice day,
    frank

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