Web Design Discussion - css question

Print Page | Close Window

css question

Printed From: Web Wiz Forums
Category: General Discussion
Forum Name: Web Design Discussion
Forum Description: Discussion on web design and development subjects.
URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=25101
Printed Date: 29 March 2026 at 12:33pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: css question

Posted By: urko
Subject: css question
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 7:26am

maybe a silly question but how big do u recommend that css file is?

As im using div's my css file is already up to 40kb, and im half way through to finish my design.

should i reduce it or what would be the max. size that u recommend?

Thanks,

-------------
Urko

Replies:

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 12:32pm

As long as you're just linking to a CSS file and not using inline CSS (i.e. style tags) size doesn't matter too much because the file is only downloaded once, then cached. Assuming pretty much nobody uses anything less than 56k, and only a minority of people use that, your CSS file should take less than a second to load for pretty much everyone, so isn't too bad at the moment!

Posted By: urko
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 3:00pm

ok, thanks for that.

i'll try to change some stuff and to be able to keep it below 50kb.
but you wouldn't recommend it to go over 50 or so right?

-------------
Urko

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 3:27pm

well it depends on your visitors, if the majority of broadband don't worry at all about it. You could use a CSS compressor to keep the size to a minimum: http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor/ it makes it less readable, but you can just keep a file in non-compressed form for editing.