An article by Dan Englishby describing how to go about clearing CSS files. A cascading style sheet can gradually build up into a bulky file over time. This means two things, your CSS file is messy, and it’s unnecessarily bigger.
A bigger CSS file indicates more significant download times, and we don’t want that if it’s not necessary!
The article contains:
- Prerequisites
- Understanding how PurifyCSS works
- Installing PurifyCSS
- Prepping our files
- Creating the JS Purifier Script
- Purifying
In this article the author used PurifyCSS to shed 13kb from example CSS file, which was a 70% reduction. Nice work!
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