Title: Putting CSS Above JS Last modified: January 13, 2017 --- # Putting CSS Above JS * Resolved [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/) * (@cocreation) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/putting-css-above-js/) * Hello, * Just installed Autoptimized and configured it. It makes the site noticeably faster. * I’m on WPEngine, and using their page performance tool to test my site. It gives me this suggestion: * > If it’s impossible to remove all the blocking JavaScript files, move all CSS > requests above them in the page. Otherwise, these requests can’t be made until > the JavaScript completes, which will add length to the page load. You host > 4 such files, and load 4 from third parties. There are a number of plugins > that can help order your files correctly. > Consider putting as much JS in the footer as possible so that it processes > after the DOM is rendered. * I enabled all the relevant settings in Autoptimize. Here’s my site: [http://cocreationcoaching.org](http://cocreationcoaching.org) * Here are my settings: * JS: - Force JavaScript in ? Unchecked - Also aggregate inline JS? Enabled - Exclude scripts from Autoptimize: seal.js, js/jquery/jquery.js - Add try-catch wrapping? Unchecked * CSS: - Generate data: URIs for images?: Unchecked - Remove Google Fonts? Unchecked - Also aggregate inline CSS? Checked - Inline and Defer CSS? Unchecked - Inline all CSS? Unchecked - Exclude CSS from Autoptimize: admin-bar.min.css, dashicons.min.css * Any way I can improve the above? * I’m also only getting a 62 on Google Page Speed Insights… 🙁 Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/) * (@futtta) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/putting-css-above-js/#post-8649664) * well, as per the HTML source the autoptimized CSS is loaded long before any JS and the autoptimized JS is loaded very late (and is deferred), so no problem there. * looking into your google pagespeed insights results, there’s a number of 3rd party hosted JS/ CSS (which AO does not optimize) that are render blocking. * what you can fix, however, is the render blocking CSS, by either “inlining all CSS” (easy) or “inlining & deferring CSS” (better). both options are explained [in the FAQ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/faq/). * hope this helps, frank * Thread Starter [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/) * (@cocreation) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/putting-css-above-js/#post-8649766) * Thanks. I’ll try that out. 🙂 Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Putting CSS Above JS’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/autoptimize/assets/icon-256X256.png?rev=2211608) * [Autoptimize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/) * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/putting-css-above-js/#post-8649766) * Status: resolved