if I inline all css it throws up the below error. so would you suggest I use inline and defer option instead. I had read the faq just wanted your opinion before I go down the harder route.
Prioritize visible content
Your page requires additional network round trips to render the above-the-fold content. For best performance, reduce the amount of HTML needed to render above-the-fold content.
yes you are right sorry I have been messing with different settings all morning something in w3 total cache was still ticked.
now got this wp content/cache/autooptimise/css/autooptimise_
Your page has 1 blocking CSS resources