Wordpress will include a lot of stuff in the header and footer that's just not required. Especially stuff for comments when this theme doesn't support them. This kills them dead.

wp_head_cleanup.php

/**
*
* Wordpress will include a lot of stuff in the header and footer
* that's just not required. Especially stuff for comments when
* this theme doesn't support them. The below kills them dead.
*
*
**/
remove_action('wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7 );
remove_action('wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' );
remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link');
remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 );
remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_shortlink_wp_head');
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');