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THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS OF INLINING CSS

strikingloo.github.io3 min read

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This developer inlined their CSS and split it into critical and non-critical sections to optimize their website’s loading speed, leading to a 22% reduction in First Contentful Paint time. Moving minor JavaScript logic into static HTML generation further improved load times slightly. These optimizations ultimately increased page views by 32% over one week.