System task: Theme/asset audit (enqueued scripts and styles) #496
Description
Context
Bloated themes are one of the top structural performance issues on WordPress sites — unused CSS, render-blocking scripts, excessive enqueued assets. DM's PageSpeed integration can detect the symptoms, but there's no system task that inspects the WordPress side directly.
Proposed
wp datamachine assets diagnose — audit enqueued scripts and styles:
- List all enqueued scripts/styles with their source, size, and dependencies
- Flag render-blocking assets
- Identify assets loaded on every page that are only needed on specific pages
- Detect duplicate/redundant libraries (e.g. jQuery loaded alongside a framework that bundles it)
- Show total asset weight per page template
This is a diagnose-only task — the fix side is more nuanced (dequeuing a script could break functionality), so it should surface actionable information that an AI step or agent can reason about.
Why
"Bloated themes" is vague when you're staring at a WordPress admin. This turns it into concrete data: which scripts, how big, where they're loaded, and whether they're blocking rendering.