Here is an example of what I'm talking about: https://www.heavensgate.com/

This is a website from a cult that committed suicide in the 1990s. This is irrelevant to the thread.

When you click on their links, they are very snappy, why is that exactly?

death to america

  • Antiwork [none/use name, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Css doesn’t slow down websites that much either though. It’s when you start adding a ton of different css that links to JavaScript just to load an image. And all the plugins that link to other sites to track visitors across the web.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, iirc, a CSS file is normally less than 1kb if you're handwriting it for a small static website. Should load instantly.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, I guess that's more what I was getting at. I am not a web dev by trade, I'm just aware that stylesheets are often another of the things that gets downloaded.