GZIPping CSS

I’m curious to see what benefit it would have, but if I get after it, I’ll be referring to the definitive post on GZIPping CSS. [Hat tip to Nick Bradury.]

Posted September 27th, 2004 in Geekery by Geof F. Morris.

3 comments:

  1. Alex:

    Bad Things™ happened when I GZIPped the JS and CSS on my site.

    September 27th, 2004 at 10:32
  2. Geof F. Morris:

    Like what?

    September 27th, 2004 at 11:07
  3. Mike P.:

    I’ve heard bad things happen when you gzip JS. Like it doesn’t work, for one thing.

    WRT CSS, the main ‘goal’ I had for doing this was speeding up the initial page display. The site that had me look into doing this wanted their page to load fast.

    So although people do say “why in the world worry about (~)one file that gets downloaded and cached once?”, the main gain that I noticed was that the page was much faster to render than without the gzipping.

    Bandwidth considerations were never really the goal here, though with bigger and more popular sites I can see it being important.

    October 3rd, 2004 at 07:57

Leave a response:

Note: This post is over 5 years old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

By submitting a comment here you grant this site a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution.