Nothing is more certain to turn away visitors than a slow-loading website, so it’s worth doing everything you can to make your site load as quickly as possible. Common techniques include compressing images and removing unnecessary markup from your pages; however, one often-overlooked aspect is your site’s CSS. With a complex page layout, a CSS file can easily run into the tens of kilobytes, adding significantly to a website’s initial load time.
Fortunately there are a number of CSS shorthand tricks you can use to dramatically reduce the size of your CSS files, and save typing at the same time! Let’s explore them.
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