Design Your Website For Speed - Optimize Your Cascading Style Sheets

March 3, 2008 by User Imagecindy  

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Designing your website for speed keeps all of your visitors happy. You never know what sort of a connection your visitors are using. They may be using mobile phones, their blackberry or even a old modem connection.

The speed at which your websites loads on their browser is important to your website’s success.

Cascading Style Sheets

When you decide to design your site for speed, one important consideration is the Cascading Style Sheets that can help you speed the server response time for your clients.

Cascading Style Sheets make websites much more efficient. They allow the browsers to cache style-related information from the .css file directly so that information does not need to be downloaded every time the users load a page.

Optimize Your CSS Code

Even if Style Sheets are naturally more efficient than HTML tables you can still optimize the CSS code to make your website cleaner and faster. Read more