Tag: css optimization

Interesting stats about stylesheets

Here’s a handy tool that visualizes all kinds of interesting stats about stylesheets including the number of rules, selectors, colors, media queries and font-families…
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15 Ways to Optimize CSS and Reduce CSS File Size

I have gathered a long list of CSS optimization and file size reduction techniques that have been using by most designers/developers. Depend on the complexity of your CSS code, these techniques might greatly reduce your CSS file size, or maybe just a few kilobytes…
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Best Practices to optimize CSS – an academic exercise

Many of the tips in this article are tiny micro-optimizations, one thing to keep in mind when going overboard with optimizing. You should never sacrifice maintainability or extensibility for optimization experiments. Consider this article more like an academic exercise rather than real-life optimization tips. It should also be noted that if you need to speed […]
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Simplifying CSS Selectors

An investigation into CSS selector performance. Not all CSS selectors hurt performance, even those that might look expensive. The key is focusing on CSS selectors with a wide-matching key selector. This becomes even more important for Web 2.0 applications where the number of DOM elements, CSS rules, and page reflows are even higher…
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Performance Impact of CSS Selectors

A few months back there were some posts about the performance impact of inefficient CSS selectors. This is the kind of browser idiosyncratic behavior that merits investigation. Is it worth the time to make CSS selectors more efficient…
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