I'm thinking about my website's performance, and I've reached around 700 lines of CSS spread across 4 to 5 pages. I know some of that includes blank space and comments, but I'm curious if this is considered too much. Will it affect load times significantly?
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Compared to most websites today, 700 lines is totally manageable. Just focus on writing maintainable code. If you're worried about performance, tools like Lighthouse can help you find the real bottlenecks.
Don't stress too much about it! The browser's parsing speed is swift, and with gzipping, the actual file transfer is minimal. Just check the load times in your developer tools to see if it's really a concern.
700 lines is practically rookie numbers! If anything, worry more about how efficient and reusable your code is, rather than the sheer number of lines. For reference, I once pushed a CSS file to 1MB, and it worked fine for years!
Haha, that's quite a record! Agreed though, focus on quality over quantity with your CSS.
700 lines is really nothing! If you're concerned, consider minifying it. Most modern browsers handle CSS pretty efficiently, so you shouldn't worry too much about the size unless you're hitting thousands of lines.
Honestly, 700 lines is quite light compared to what I've seen in bigger projects. Plus, once you start using frameworks, you'll often end up with hundreds of thousands of lines! Just make sure your CSS is efficient rather than focusing solely on the line count.
Right? I've seen sites with 30k lines of CSS and they're still running fine!
Yeah, performance checks can show that a big CSS file isn’t as heavy as it seems, especially with good setup!