Html validation confusing

Mobile
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After receiving an email from Google telling me that 33 pages did not conform to mobile requirements I have been busy adjusting things. Most of my pages received around 65% in the Google Page Speed Insights, and I moved a share42 script to the bottom of the page, which imporved it. Then, I wondered if I could do the same with

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500,700%7CRoboto+Slab:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

and tried. The page went into the green with 90% and looked fine. So, I changed quite a few pages, but now the validator throws up an error, which disappears if I put the line back inside the head. I read that, in the past, you could not put the link inside the body, but that things have changed.
So, I am confused! Shall I go with the validator, or ignore it?

Thank you

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The validator isn’t always correct, but it’s correct here.

Your link should be in the <head> section.

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Hi Ryan

GOOGLE page speed tells me to put a GOOGLE link below…and goes green in delight when I do. The validaot says GOOGLE knows nothing about its own links…

All right, undo everything and go back into the red!

But what shall I do to satisfy Page Speed?

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I’m sure there are a plethora of other things you can do to get your page speed higher. What other recommendations are there?

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Problems uploading the attachment… How do you do it? The Upload does not work and if I drag & drop the rest of the page disappears and I cannot see the Reply button…

Anyway the big culprits (in red) are Remove render-blocking Java script whi ch I moved to the bottom and optimize css delivery of the css file and the Google fonts

Run pageSpeed in, for instance http://pintotours.net/Americas/DomRepublic/foodStoDom.html

Regards

UPDATE

About the same problem:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18549726/element-link-is-missing-required-attribute-property

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