Learn How CSS Can Make Your Web Pages Faster



CSS refers to Cascading Style Sheets. These are used to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML. When you use CSS it can greatly improve a user's ability to access content on the web. Therefore, you should utilize CSS to configure your pages as opposed to tables. CSS is faster than the table format for a number of different reasons.

  • Your web browser will scan tables twice before sending the information, in order to understand the structure of the data and then to define it.
  • Tables are all or nothing. The information is presented on the screen at the same time or not at all. The whole table has to be downloaded before the information will be presented.
  • Tables employ "spacer images." This helps them in their positioning.
  • CSS requires much less code than tables.
  • CSS is much more efficient. CSS will determine if the data is associated with layout and if it is, it will save this information to your computer. This way it only ever has to load this information once. Tables, on the other hand, will load the layout information each time a page downloads.
  • CSS also allows you to customize and arrange the information downloaded onto the screen. This way a computer user who wants to download something can see it on the screen beforehand.

Images to Display Text:

You don't have to use images to display text on the screen anymore. Thanks to CSS you can now display text much more efficiently.

  • In CSS, open "Creative Images."
  • Employ "Contextual Selectors". Every paragraph in class="text" must be identified by a 2em font value, or size, and a #03c color value. All of this information might not seem very important but if you follow these directions carefully you can reduce the size of your file by about 20 per cent.
  • Make sure the CSS properties are in shorthand.
  • Don't overuse "comment tags", "white space" or "line returns." Every letter, symbol or space takes up memory and while it doesn't seem to be relevant, it can accumulate quickly. If you effectively tidy your code, you can shave 10 per cent off of your file size.
  • Use "relative call-ups."
  • Avoid "complete call ups."

META tags aren't usually needed and they don't typically generate a lot. You can search for META tag lists online, there are a lot of lists available. "Description" and "Keyword" tags are the most useful, obviously, as they lend a hand with Search Engine Optimization. That being said, they have become overused recently and may not be that helpful. If you decide to use META tags make sure to hit save every 200 characters. That way you can keep your pages nice and small.

 

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