Stop serving unminified CSS — a 2-minute fix for faster pages

Every byte your browser downloads before rendering a page costs time. CSS is one of the biggest culprits — and one of the easiest to fix. What CSS minification actually does Minification strips everything from your stylesheet that the browser doesn't need to parse it: Comments — /* This is a comment */ → gone Whitespace — indentation, blank lines, spaces around { } ; → gone Trailing semicolons — the last ; in a rule block is optional in CSS → gone Here's a before/after on a typical stylesheet: Before (287 bytes): /* Navigation styles */ nav { display : flex ; align-items : center ; padding : 16px 24px ; background : #ffffff ; border-bottom : 1px solid #eee ; } nav a { color : #333 ; text-decoration : none ; font-weight : 600 ; } After (122 bytes): nav { display : flex ; align-items : center ; padding : 16px 24px ; background : #ffffff ; border-bottom : 1px solid #eee } nav a { color : #333 ; text-decoration : none ; font-weight : 600 } Same result in the browser. 57% smaller. Does mini