This plugin is no longer recommended. Deferring every stylesheet makes the page paint before its own layout arrives. That flash of unstyled content is measured as Cumulative Layout Shift — one of the Core Web Vitals this plugin is meant to improve. The current advice is to inline the CSS needed for the top of the page and defer only the rest, which is more than rewriting a link tag can do. If you have not configured the exclusion filter for your main stylesheets, deactivating this plugin will most likely improve your scores rather than worsen them. This small plugin (5 Kb) loads the stylesheet...
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