Web-based CSS Optimization Tools

Even if you are not an accessibility freak, reducing the total size of your web pages (both internal and external components) is always win-win. Not only will your site load faster for your users, you save bandwidth. There are a number of different approaches that can be pursued, but we’ll only look at CSS optimization in this article.

In particular, we’ll be looking at web-based tools that automatically reduce the size of your CSS files - whether by removing whitespace, removing comments, and/or merging classes and attributes. In alphabetical order, they are:

• CleanCSS
• Clean Compress
• CSS Optimiser
• CSS Tweak
• Flumpcakes CSS Optimiser
• Icey’s CSS Compressor

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