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CSS Minifier
Compress CSS code to reduce file size and improve performance
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help_outline Understanding CSS Minification
What Gets Minified?
- remove CSS comments and whitespace
- palette Color optimizations (rgb → hex, shortened hex)
- straighten Unit removal from zero values (0px → 0)
- text_format Font-weight optimization (normal → 400)
Performance Impact
speed
20-60% reduction in file size
download
Faster download times
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Better Google PageSpeed scores
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Improved mobile performance
Best Practices
Build Pipeline
Integrate minification into your build process
Source Maps
Generate source maps for debugging minified code
Critical CSS
Inline critical CSS, minify the rest
tips_and_updates
Advanced Tips:
- • Use CSS preprocessor optimization
- • Remove unused CSS rules
- • Combine CSS files when possible
- • Enable Brotli or GZIP compression
compare Before and After Example
Before (Original):
/* Container styles */
.container {
max-width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 20px 15px;
}
/* Header styles */
.header {
background-color: #333333;
color: #ffffff;
padding: 1rem 0px;
text-align: center;
}
.button {
background-color: #007bff;
color: white;
padding: 10px 20px;
border: none;
border-radius: 4px;
}
After (Minified):
.container{max-width:1200px;margin:0 auto;padding:20px 15px}.header{background:#333;color:#fff;padding:1rem 0;text-align:center}.button{background:#007bff;color:#fff;padding:10px 20px;border:0;border-radius:4px}