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First off, I want to start off by saying that the video posted in the Eliminate Render Blocking CSS was very helpful to my site [http://www.researchwrestling.com]. My desktop score was 66 before doing that and afterword it jumped to 88 – a pretty incredible jump I must say!
After following what the video showed, I experienced the following issues:
1. The Google Ads in the widget had the picture associated with the ad disappear, with only a text link remaining.
2. When you click on Article in the main header bar – it briefly flashes an image before it disappears – though if you hover over it, you can tell that there is still a link you can click on. In that specific Category menu item, there should be three posts.
After watching the video, I did a thorough screening of my site BEFORE I did it so that the issues would jump out immediately.
I am a novice when it comes to WordPress. I am starting to learn a little bit here and a little there, but this is something that after a full day of research I couldn’t find the help elsewhere.
It’s worth noting that I have two other sites [http://www.researchchristmas.com] and [https://www.researchfantasy.com] that I want to apply the videos functionality to in order to help their score, but I want to see if I can get help with these issues first. ResearchFantasy is a year old and actually had a pretty strong first year [60k+ visits] so I don’t want to implement this and have something go wrong.
I am using the Extra theme by Elegant Themes, as well as the Divi Builder. I have the Above the Fold Optimization plugin installed and activated as well, but I did not do anything to it in terms of setting anything up. It is still the same as the day I installed it. I have not tried to remove that to see if that fixes an issue since I don’t think it is actively doing anything on that site.
Sorry for being long winded. I am just trying to provide as much information as possible to see if this is something really simple that I messed up on or if it is a little more complicated.
Thanks for the plugin, as outside of these small issues, it has really pumped up the score on Google for all three.