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You're right about them not being minified, but wrong about the need for 4 external stylesheets. Look at their home page, for example. It uses just one stylesh
by dmpatierno 16y ago
You're right about them not being minified, but wrong about the need for 4 external stylesheets.
Look at their home page, for example. It uses just one stylesheet (v6core.css). That same file is also used on their blog, so my browser already has it cached. Perfect!
None of those stylesheets are less than 45K, so the savings they get from not needing to download them on every page outweighs the HTTP request hit they take by including them separately on more complex pages.
- jluxenberg 16y agoEven if the CSS is cached, your browser still needs to ask the server if the files has changed and receive back a "304 Not Modified," so you're still incurring the overhead of those connections.
- dmpatierno 16y agoNot if you set a proper far-future Expires header.