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What's the best way to optimize CSS for faster rendering?

Asked on Dec 10, 2025

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Optimizing CSS for faster rendering involves minimizing render-blocking resources and ensuring styles are loaded efficiently. This can be achieved through techniques like inlining critical CSS and deferring non-critical styles.

Example Concept: Critical CSS refers to the minimal set of CSS rules required to render the above-the-fold content of a webpage. By inlining these styles directly into the HTML document, you reduce the time to first render. Non-critical CSS can be loaded asynchronously using the "media" attribute or by deferring its loading until after the initial render.

Additional Comment:

Use tools like Critical or Penthouse to extract critical CSS automatically.
Consider splitting your CSS into smaller, modular files to load only what's necessary.
Implement "media" attributes for CSS files that are not needed immediately, such as print styles.
Minify CSS to reduce file size and improve load times.
Use a content delivery network (CDN) to serve CSS files faster to users globally.

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