Optimizing Yoast For Site Speed in WordPress

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Stripping out basic front-end bulk

If you don’t elect to change some of the features below inside of WordPress as we recommend, you can still add this code below to a child theme in the functions.php folder of your child theme to reduce some of the unneeded bulk on your site’s front-end loaded by Yoast.

//Remove Yoast Comments

function go_yoast() {
  if (defined('WPSEO_VERSION')){
      add_action('get_header',function (){ ob_start(function ($o){
          return preg_replace('/\n?<.*?Yoast SEO plugin.*?>/mi','',$o); }); });
      add_action('wp_head',function (){ ob_end_flush(); }, 999);
  }
}
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'go_yoast');

Simply add the above code to the bottom of the functions.php file, or wherever makes sense for your site in the child theme. If you do this inside of WordPress (via Appearance > Theme Editor > Select Child Theme) clicking update after adding the code should allow WordPress to validate the code so it doesn’t cause a critical error.

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