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It is sometimes claimed that separating CSS stylesheets would significantly improve a website’s performance. The idea behind this is that only the most important CSS rules should be loaded first. At first glance, this seems like a great idea, but I doubt that it is really that important. I read an article on Medium that mentioned 450 kB of CSS, which would be absolutely enormous and seems to be a rare exception in terms of size.
Do you have any practical experience with this approach?
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Hi there,
I’ve seen that idea floating around too. In practice though, splitting CSS usually doesn’t make a huge difference unless you’re dealing with massive files.
For most sites, a well-optimized single stylesheet and proper caching do the job just fine.
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Thanks Alvind,
that’s what I thought. I don’t think it’s worth the effort.
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No problem 🙂
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