While I'm still using Google Fonts, I inlined all the @font-face declarations into my own CSS files, and was then able to remove the <link> tag (a blocking resource) in the head of the document. Lazy loading images also helped, and using webm for video.
Before: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/201129_Di8J_c734f3b630a33...
After: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/201201_DiG4_230670b40ea6e...
While I'm still using Google Fonts, I inlined all the @font-face declarations into my own CSS files, and was then able to remove the <link> tag (a blocking resource) in the head of the document. Lazy loading images also helped, and using webm for video.