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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

96 points · 72 comments · torutofu

  1. meerita · · focus · HN ↗
    I don't know how they perceive the performance. I see 41 network requests. That's 2.1 MB of CSS over the wire, blocking rendering and hurting painting and loading speed. There's 400 KB of Tailwind, 87 KB of general CSS, plus another 200 KB of other general CSS. They need to embrace functional CSS properly. I'm sure they could have a single CSS file under 80 KB that renders everything.
    1. worldsavior · · focus · HN ↗
      2.1MB is nothing for the user.
      1. troupo · · focus · HN ↗
        Read Performance Inequality Gap <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infrequently.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;performance-inequality-gap-2026&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infrequently.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;performance-inequality-gap-...
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