Does CSS minimizes Page Load time?

[jiten702]

Hi all.....

It is known to all that Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) helps in managing look and feel of the site but it is true that it also helps in reducing the page load time?

[turf]

if those images such as .jpg or png link in the css is a huge file then i could affect the load.

[biscayne]

yes It's helps in reducing the page load time because it will reduce redundant code and file size.

[MrC]

CSS Really Really, speeds up your site. Compared to tables etc..

[searchbliss]

It's the lack of HTML combined with CSS that speeds up load time...not CSS itself.

[ImperialDirectory]

You will also need to set the css file to expire in a further future in user's browser and use some kind of compression like mod_deflate in Apache to take full advantage of optimizing your page load time with CSS files.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Also, if you use an external stylesheet instead of an internal one or inline styling the browser will cache (store) the information thus, it doesn't have to reread all the styling in the head section or typical inline styling again (it reduces the file size and is easier to maintain too!)

CSS Introduction
CSS How To... - explains external, internal and inline styles.

[simplyamazing12]

CSS compared to Tables...CSS will always win in the loading process unless your site is simplified enough to optimize tables. That is from personal experience and that is why I always tell colleagues to learn to code templates with CSS instead of tables. (Was first recommended by my host because they saw that my sloppy "tables" coding affected loading times)

[socialmedianews]

yes CSS takes up small file size.

[homeschooled]

Originally Posted by simplyamazing12

CSS compared to Tables...

It should be <div> compared to <table>. <div> tag will own!!!

[jasikajohnson]

Css are the really a best for a designing and all the things you want that you use in css that refer in your whole site,I think that all use a css this are the easy way you use it,and it also it minimise your page load.

[dextermarkus]

I think that CSS is good for designing the entire site. It is easy to use. And yes, it also minimizes the page load time.