title: How do I fix "Error: A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 512 bytes."
body: <p>I am getting this error for my site in validation.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error: A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 512 bytes.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and here is code causing this problem:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; 
  &lt;html class="not-ie no-js" lang="en-US" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#"&gt; 
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://mywebsite.com.au/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/TY3RDsIgDEV_SFb5pAqVgLDWFTb79y6bWXw6ybk3OR4KdcHwgsZxVFLYckzUL97uoN0q7QyqUN6DFpueOAd78Gdqef4ta47EruifwhEzS0WjZfWH97CJSw1FcjdHqOYSc6rkdqdnaU_LdRHW7k79BQ.css" media="all" /&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mywebsite.com.au/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/hY7RDsIgDEV_aFCXmCzxb5DVDQSKtDj164W5dx977rltV5F8ATDevPRCtAQ02bG2FHcGwV0Z_KNiecOoJz0eg44uac_DCTxDpBlLcp-ibWWh-KNPNyMpz10dztBWRkyiCuaw14exsSTGirpRiWoCl2yoM3JvH2d68l9mW1wWbpJHycbe-0s1tHDLS6GVvg.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mywebsite.com.au/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/M9YvzdTPKixNLarUK83UK89MSU8t0cvNzAMA.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mywebsite.com.au/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/ZY5BDsIwDAQ_RNIWxEt4gUkMuKRxsJPS8HpacahQLnuYnZW270btFAO6TDN9xED0BpcsYH6URe1E8dBvoqAmjn4H46ugVIugFO9msKemukF09cqLTeCef42rLqCFEJqNTiD5krcI5FEagZQzJ2z46EC4rMf3BoonTgEqyjw0g8zFPS5vSrieP9rzLriimacv.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
  </code></pre>