diff --git a/.changeset/tidy-pianos-argue.md b/.changeset/tidy-pianos-argue.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b66a1d6d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/tidy-pianos-argue.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"gitbook": patch
+---
+
+Load the admin toolbar and its CSS lazily so published pages no longer ship a render-blocking stylesheet for admin-only UI.
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/AdminToolbar.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/AdminToolbar.tsx
index 6d933a9cf..889dc5a3c 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/AdminToolbar.tsx
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/AdminToolbar.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { AdminToolbarClient } from './AdminToolbarClient';
+import { AdminToolbarLazy } from './AdminToolbarLazy';
 import { getToolbarChangedPages } from './changedPages';
 import type { AdminToolbarContext } from './types';
 import type { GitBookSiteContext } from '@/lib/context';
@@ -62,5 +62,5 @@ export async function AdminToolbar(props: AdminToolbarProps) {
         changedPages,
     };
 
-    return <AdminToolbarClient context={minimalContext} />;
+    return <AdminToolbarLazy context={minimalContext} />;
 }
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/AdminToolbarLazy.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/AdminToolbarLazy.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18d7ce20e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/AdminToolbarLazy.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+'use client';
+
+import dynamic from 'next/dynamic';
+
+import type { AdminToolbarClientProps } from './types';
+
+// The toolbar only ever appears after hydration (`useToolbarVisibility` reads cookies and local
+// storage), so nothing is lost by deferring it — and it takes its CSS modules out of the route's
+// render-blocking stylesheets, where every published page was paying for them.
+const AdminToolbarClient = dynamic(
+    () => import('./AdminToolbarClient').then((mod) => mod.AdminToolbarClient),
+    { ssr: false }
+);
+
+export function AdminToolbarLazy(props: AdminToolbarClientProps) {
+    return <AdminToolbarClient {...props} />;
+}
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/index.ts b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/index.ts
index 490e4b6ae..3cbcc3774 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/index.ts
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AdminToolbar/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
+// Only the server entrypoint: re-exporting the client modules would pull their CSS modules back
+// into the route's render-blocking stylesheets, defeating the lazy boundary.
 export * from './AdminToolbar';
-export * from './AdminToolbarClient';
-export * from './IframeWrapper';
-export * from './Toolbar';
-export * from './transitions';
-export * from './utils';
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinkMore.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinkMore.tsx
index 76a99a229..12f17aab7 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinkMore.tsx
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinkMore.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import {
 } from '../primitives/DropdownMenu';
 import { SiteAuthLoginDropdownMenuItem } from '../SiteAuth/SiteAuthLoginLink';
 import { HeaderLinkMoreDropdown } from './HeaderLinkMoreClient';
-import styles from './headerLinks.module.css';
 import { isSiteAuthLoginHref } from '@/lib/auth-login-link';
 import type { GitBookSiteContext } from '@/lib/context';
 import { resolveContentRef } from '@/lib/references';
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ export function HeaderLinkMore(props: {
     const { label, links, context, socialAccounts } = props;
 
     return (
-        <div className={`${styles.linkEllipsis} z-20 items-center`}>
+        <div className="header-links-ellipsis z-20 items-center">
             <HeaderLinkMoreDropdown
                 label={label}
                 dropdownClassName={tcls(
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinks.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinks.tsx
index 5a4222592..6ef92fbaf 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinks.tsx
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/HeaderLinks.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import type React from 'react';
 
-import styles from './headerLinks.module.css';
 import { type ClassValue, tcls } from '@/lib/tailwind';
 
 interface HeaderLinksProps {
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ export async function HeaderLinks({ children, style }: HeaderLinksProps) {
     return (
         <div
             className={tcls(
-                styles.containerHeaderlinks,
+                'header-links',
                 '@4xl:[&>.button+.button]:-ml-2 z-20 ml-auto flex min-w-9 shrink grow @7xl:grow-0 items-center justify-end @4xl:gap-x-6 gap-x-4',
                 style
             )}
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/headerLinks.module.css b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/headerLinks.module.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 46eb0036a..000000000
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Header/headerLinks.module.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-@container header (width < 1280px) {
-    .containerHeaderlinks {
-        container-type: inline-size;
-        container-name: headerlinks;
-    }
-}
-
-.linkEllipsis {
-    display: none;
-    & div > a {
-        display: none;
-    }
-}
-
-@container headerlinks (width < 150px) {
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 1) {
-        display: none;
-    }
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 1) ~ .linkEllipsis {
-        display: flex;
-        & div > *:nth-child(n + 1) {
-            display: flex;
-        }
-    }
-}
-@container headerlinks (width < 300px) {
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 2) {
-        display: none;
-    }
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 2) ~ .linkEllipsis {
-        display: flex;
-        & div > *:nth-child(n + 2) {
-            display: flex;
-        }
-    }
-}
-@container headerlinks (width < 450px) {
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 3) {
-        display: none;
-    }
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 3) ~ .linkEllipsis {
-        display: flex;
-        & div > *:nth-child(n + 3) {
-            display: flex;
-        }
-    }
-}
-@container headerlinks (width < 550px) {
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 4) {
-        display: none;
-    }
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 4) ~ .linkEllipsis {
-        display: flex;
-        & div > *:nth-child(n + 4) {
-            display: flex;
-        }
-    }
-}
-@container headerlinks (width < 650px) {
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 5) {
-        display: none;
-    }
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 5) ~ .linkEllipsis {
-        display: flex;
-        & div > *:nth-child(n + 5) {
-            display: flex;
-        }
-    }
-}
-@container headerlinks (width < 750px) {
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 6) {
-        display: none;
-    }
-    .containerHeaderlinks > :nth-child(n + 6) ~ .linkEllipsis {
-        display: flex;
-        & div > *:nth-child(n + 6) {
-            display: flex;
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/RootLayout/globals.css b/packages/gitbook/src/components/RootLayout/globals.css
index 1c542fd45..2110b127a 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/RootLayout/globals.css
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/RootLayout/globals.css
@@ -552,3 +552,107 @@ html.dark .highlight-line.diff-deleted .highlight-line-content::before {
 .button-group > :is(button, a):not(:first-child):has(~ :is(button, a)) {
   @apply rounded-none!;
 }
+
+/* Zoomable images */
+html:has(.zoom-modal) {
+  /* stylelint-disable-next-line plugin/no-unsupported-browser-features -- single-value overflow is universal; doiuse flags the whole css-overflow feature */
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.zoom-img {
+  /* stylelint-disable-next-line plugin/no-unsupported-browser-features -- zoom cursors are irrelevant on the touch browsers doiuse flags */
+  cursor: zoom-in;
+}
+
+.zoom-image-active {
+  view-transition-name: zoom-image;
+}
+
+.zoom-modal img {
+  view-transition-name: zoom-image;
+  /* stylelint-disable-next-line plugin/no-unsupported-browser-features -- zoom cursors are irrelevant on the touch browsers doiuse flags */
+  cursor: zoom-out;
+}
+
+/* Header links collapse into the "more" dropdown one by one as the header narrows. Each breakpoint
+   hides one more link and reveals the ellipsis holding the ones that no longer fit. */
+@container header (width < 1280px) {
+  .header-links {
+    container-type: inline-size;
+    container-name: headerlinks;
+  }
+}
+
+.header-links-ellipsis {
+  display: none;
+  & div > a {
+    display: none;
+  }
+}
+
+@container headerlinks (width < 150px) {
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 1) {
+    display: none;
+  }
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 1) ~ .header-links-ellipsis {
+    display: flex;
+    & div > *:nth-child(n + 1) {
+      display: flex;
+    }
+  }
+}
+@container headerlinks (width < 300px) {
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 2) {
+    display: none;
+  }
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 2) ~ .header-links-ellipsis {
+    display: flex;
+    & div > *:nth-child(n + 2) {
+      display: flex;
+    }
+  }
+}
+@container headerlinks (width < 450px) {
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 3) {
+    display: none;
+  }
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 3) ~ .header-links-ellipsis {
+    display: flex;
+    & div > *:nth-child(n + 3) {
+      display: flex;
+    }
+  }
+}
+@container headerlinks (width < 550px) {
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 4) {
+    display: none;
+  }
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 4) ~ .header-links-ellipsis {
+    display: flex;
+    & div > *:nth-child(n + 4) {
+      display: flex;
+    }
+  }
+}
+@container headerlinks (width < 650px) {
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 5) {
+    display: none;
+  }
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 5) ~ .header-links-ellipsis {
+    display: flex;
+    & div > *:nth-child(n + 5) {
+      display: flex;
+    }
+  }
+}
+@container headerlinks (width < 750px) {
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 6) {
+    display: none;
+  }
+  .header-links > :nth-child(n + 6) ~ .header-links-ellipsis {
+    display: flex;
+    & div > *:nth-child(n + 6) {
+      display: flex;
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/ZoomImage.module.css b/packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/ZoomImage.module.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 324a9a22b..000000000
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/ZoomImage.module.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-html:has(.zoomModal) {
-    overflow: hidden;
-}
-
-.zoomImg {
-    cursor: zoom-in;
-}
-
-.zoomImageActive {
-    view-transition-name: zoom-image;
-}
-
-.zoomModal {
-    /** Unstyled */
-}
-
-.zoomModal img {
-    view-transition-name: zoom-image;
-    cursor: zoom-out;
-}
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/ZoomImage.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/ZoomImage.tsx
index 0c44fb6f0..4d294f81a 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/ZoomImage.tsx
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/utils/ZoomImage.tsx
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 
 import { Icon } from '@gitbook/icons';
 
-import styles from './ZoomImage.module.css';
 import { tcls } from '@/lib/tailwind';
 
 const PADDING = 32; // Padding around the image in the modal, in pixels
@@ -159,8 +158,8 @@ export function ZoomImage(
                     }}
                     className={classNames(
                         props.className,
-                        zoomable ? styles.zoomImg : null,
-                        active ? styles.zoomImageActive : null
+                        zoomable ? 'zoom-img' : null,
+                        active ? 'zoom-image-active' : null
                     )}
                 />
             )}
@@ -200,7 +199,7 @@ function ZoomImageModal(props: {
         <div
             data-testid="zoom-image-modal"
             className={classNames(
-                styles.zoomModal,
+                'zoom-modal',
                 tcls(
                     'fixed',
                     'inset-0',