Tag: optimize

How to Micro-Optimize Your CSS

In this article you’ll learn how to write leaner, cleaner CSS using 10+ micro-optimization techniques. The basic idea behind micro-optimizing your CSS involves writing clean code, eliminating extraneous characters, and reducing overall file size. And you don’t have to rely on an automated script to do everything for you. Instead of writing lazy, sloppy, bloated […]
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Clean CSS – Optimize and Format your CSS

A useful online tool to format and optimize your CSS files. Lots of options that enable full control of the process…
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CSS Redundancy Checker

Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren't used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant…
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10 Tips for Writing Better CSS

Writing your first piece of css code can seem really weird if you’re used to working with tables, or just haven’t written code before. In this article I want to talk about 10 different ways you can write proper and clean css code as well as streamline the process and ensure you’re getting the job […]
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Guidelines for Developing Your Own CSS Framework

Quite a few CSS frameworks have been around for a while, but most web developers avoid using them. Instead most veteran developers prefer to create their own CSS framework, which provide benefits of a personalized solution and minimizes negative aspects of depending on a third party solution…
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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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Taming CSS Selectors

From Nicole’s presentation at the CSS Summit. This is brand new research regarding efficient CSS selector design. Practicing the rules outlined here will make your CSS lean, your site fast, and your maintenance minimal. A beautiful combination for people concerned with building performance into their sites…
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Online CSS Compressor

Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression. The “Normal” mode should work well in most cases, creating a good balance between the […]
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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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11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File

Minimizing the filesize of the CSS stylesheet has been regarded by many as a good way to increase your site loading speed. Indeed, by reducing the CSS file by several kilobytes, the server will take a shorter time to load and result in a faster webpage. In the event that your articles hit the Digg […]
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