Success, lost 1/3 of the weight

[JorgeV]

Hello-

Did not know with whom to share the enjoyment, ... but I succeeded to reduce the size of the CSS of one of my site by 1/3. This is my elder site, and over the years I kept adding things, the CSS gained weight. So, this week, I decided to review all the styles and do some clean up, regrouping, simplifying, and also applied things I've learned since the first time I made this CSS. As a result, the design of the site remains the same, but the CSS went form 45 KB to 15 KB.

Happy.

[topr8]

congratulations! well done!

i share your joy - i'm obsessed with making filesizes as small as possible too!

btw ... i think you meant to say: lost 2/3 of the weight!

[JorgeV]

btw ... i think you meant to say: lost 2/3 of the weight!

Oh wow! Yes, again better :)

[not2easy]

Good work JorgeV! Every bit helps. ;)

[engine]

That's great, especially with Google's insatiable appetite for fast loading sites.

[lucy24]

from 45 KB to 15 KB.

Wow, that's some major liposuction.

Upon reading these numbers, I scurried to my own site files to do an anxious comparison. (I suspect I am not alone in this.) On my biggest site, shared styles are 6k, while the various directories' styles vary from 4 to 7 k. (I further suspect that some of this material can be shifted to sharedstyles, but so far I haven't had the energy to look into it. Besides, it only matters if a user drifts among different directories, which most don't.) Areas that use a third specialized stylesheet run anywhere from 2 to--yikes!--9 k. Three stylesheets is my absolute ceiling (looking at you, WordPress).

[blend27]

Those lovely KBs, Off we shed/shave/shrink/minify them. Spill them in a HEAD, much faster.

[JorgeV]

It also helps when you stop bothering with "old" versions of IE :)