3 Strategies for Boosting Holiday Website Speed

For example, a series of CSS files could go from looking like this:

to this:

Now the three original CSS files are served by one request, boosting performance. It doesn't hurt that code is easier to read too.

Once you've combined your CSS, compress your CSS by removing white space and condensing text, specifically eliminating comments and changing variable names. Compressor.com is a great tool for CSS compression, and there are a lot of other free tools that work just as well.