<b>Critical CSS and builders: why your LCP still lags</b>

<b>Critical CSS and builders: why your LCP still lags</b>
You added a caching plugin, ran critical CSS generation, and the builder still render-blocks. Here's why.

— Builders register global stylesheets with high priority that critical-CSS tools can't safely inline.
— Elementor's font-awesome and swiper CSS load even on pages that use neither, blocking render.
— Bricks lets you disable unused global assets per project; Elementor needs Experiments toggles flipped on.

<b>Pros (manual asset control):</b> dequeue swiper, font-awesome, animations you don't use.
<b>Cons:</b> requires knowing which handle does what, no UI for it in some builders.

<b>Best for:</b> audit enqueued handles with Query Monitor, dequeue the unused ones in functions.php. Do this on every builder, not just the slow ones.