Hey everyone.
Does CSS burden the site?
That’s why I wanted to ask this question.
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A discussion was initiated by ogulcan1787 regarding the potential burden of CSS on a site’s performance. Arkshine responded, explaining that while it is possible for CSS to impact performance, this would typically require extremely large or complex code. In most cases, theme components, plugins, or customizations have a minimal effect. Arkshine also noted that JavaScript performance issues are more common than CSS issues. merefield added that CSS will not burden the server. ogulcan1787 thanked Arkshine and merefield for their responses.
If by burden you mean performance, it’s possible, yes. However, you would need to load extremely large or complex CSS. In the context of theme components, plugins, or site customizations, it’s usually small pieces of CSS; it won’t have a noticeable impact no matter what you do.
In the worst case, you might slow the rendering process with inefficient selectors, the wrong use of animation, or font loading, but unless you have a huge page and do something very wrong, you will be fine. You can follow the best practices (there are many resources on the Internet).
Also, I think you will have a JS performance issue rather than CSS in most cases.
One important note is that it will NOT burden your server.
@Arkshine @merefield
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