Unnecessary assets slow down the site or hurt performance scores.
Theme Loads Unused Fonts or Scripts
Key Points: Your theme is bloated — loading Google Fonts you don’t use, carousels you never added, or icons you didn’t ask for.
You run a speed test and discover 20 extra requests: 3 font families, 2 sliders, and 5 icon sets. The theme assumes you need everything. And your site pays the price.
🚧 Symptoms
- Low Lighthouse or GTmetrix scores
- Extra network requests for assets not used on any page
- Pagespeed penalty for unused CSS/JS
🧹 Cleanup Plan
- Use Asset CleanUp or Perfmatters plugin to selectively unload scripts
- Disable theme features you don’t use (check theme panel or functions)
- Replace theme with a lightweight, performance-optimized alternative if needed
📉 Final Word
Themes should be minimal, not maximal. You can always add functionality later — but removing bloat is harder than avoiding it in the first place.