Speed performance
Minified CSS files can give you the opportunity to save some space in terms of KiB (kibibytes): SeoChecker lists you in a table like the one below all the unminified CSS files, their size and their potential saving:
If you minify your CSS files, this will result in a saving in terms of loading performance, because usually they tend to be larger than it's needed.
For instance:
/* Header background should match brand colors. */ h1 { background-color: #000000; } h2 { background-color: #000000; }
can become:
h1, h2 { background-color: #000000; }
that uses a lot less bytes than the first one and it results completely equivalent to it. It can also be used without whitespace:
h1,h2{background-color:#000000;}
You can minify your CSS files in two ways:
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