Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content

[innovativedmm]

Your page has 2 blocking script resources and 2 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.

None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.

1. Remove render-blocking JavaScript:

• https://political-revolution.com/…-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
• https://political-revolution.com/…s/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.4.1

2. Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:

• https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Work+Sans:300,400,500
• https://political-revolution.com/…es/thepoliticalsage/dist/styles/main.css

[leggomuhgreggo]

Good issue @innovativedmm!

I think both of these optimizations are essentially the same process of downloading local versions of the files and then including them in our build.

Our theme leverages a manifest.json file to handle assets includes with its build system. So the files just needs to be defined there.

This would be a good one for someone new to start learning the ropes.

[Smona]

Wordpress-specific resource on doing this. jQuery and jqmigrate are inserted by WordPress itself. So the fix for this is probably in setup.php