Eliminate Render Blocking CSS 1.0.0

Does Eliminate Render Blocking CSS work with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 13.48 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version7.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 80+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/eliminate-render-blocking-css/
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Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=eliminate-render-blocking-css%2Feliminate-render-blocking-css.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=c13e70d41a
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.814 s
Memory usage 4.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Eliminate Render Blocking CSS

Page screenshot: Settings → Eliminate Render Blocking CSS
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=eliminate_render_blocking_css
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.700 s
Memory usage 4.25 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.256 s
Memory usage 4.61 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php2.131 s0.628 s-1.503 s4.23 MiB4.25 MiB+ 19.76 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.662 s0.591 s-0.071 s4.28 MiB4.3 MiB+ 21.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php2.529 s2.439 s-0.090 s6.78 MiB6.8 MiB+ 24.85 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php1.079 s1.489 s+0.410 s4.25 MiB4.25 MiB+ 3.78 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.697 s0.689 s-0.008 s4.22 MiB4.23 MiB+ 7.77 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php1.183 s1.186 s+0.003 s4.21 MiB4.23 MiB+ 15.97 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.651 s0.651 s+0.000 s4.22 MiB4.24 MiB+ 21.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page2.358 s1.621 s-0.737 s6.76 MiB6.78 MiB+ 20.38 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.765 s1.164 s+0.399 s4.23 MiB4.23 MiB+ 288 bytes
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.565 s0.614 s+0.049 s4.24 MiB4.25 MiB+ 3.79 KiB
/0.311 s0.247 s-0.064 s4.6 MiB4.61 MiB+ 9.38 KiB
Average 1.176 s1.029 s-0.147 s4.73 MiB4.74 MiB+ 13.48 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP100.0%376473
Total 376 47 3

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 389
Total complexity 90
Median class complexity 28.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class ErbCSSClass
Most complex function ErbCSSClass::critical()
Classes 1
Methods 8
Functions 20

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

No new entries found.

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[12-Sep-2026 02:49:29 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/eliminate-render-blocking-css/erbcss-settings.php on line 124
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Eliminate Render Blocking CSS" Admin Menu