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lelandfe ◴[] No.43901905[source]
Nice one. Would be cool if this also handled responsiveness. The need to dedupe responsive critical styles has made me resort to manually editing all critical stylesheets I've ever made.

I also see that this brings in CSS variable definitions (sorry, ~custom properties~) and things like that. Since critical CSS's size matters so much, it might be worth giving an option to compile all of that down.

> Place your original non-critical CSS <link> tags just before the closing </body> tag

I don't recommend doing this: you still want the CSS downloaded urgently, critical CSS is a façade. Moving to the end of body means the good stuff is discovered late, and thus downloaded late (and will block render if the preloader[0] discovers it).

These days I'd recommend:

    <link rel="preload" href="styles.css" as="style" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'">

    <noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css"></noscript>
[0] https://web.dev/articles/preload-scanner
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1. stevenpotts ◴[] No.43928038[source]
you are right, I will add this option, probably replace the 'before body' option, the 'DOMCONTENTLOADED' option has worked wonders for me, even tested it on old phones and slower connections, it's good enough for UX and Lighthousr