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Why Your CSS Code Is a Slow, Broken, and Hard-to-Manage Mess

CSS: A Source of Trouble

CSS plays a vital role in creating web apps. Despite its simplicity, working and maintaining large CSS codebases is becoming a headache for most developers.

In this article, I explain the CSS mistakes that lead to slow loading, and unresponsive and unmaintainable code bases of web apps. We will discuss how to avoid those mistakes and the tools which help to overcome these mistakes.

Why CSS Code is Slow?

Unoptimized CSS can lead to slower web pages. Consider this graph.
conversation-rate

In this case, the conversation rate is inversely proportional to the page speed. The more unoptimized CSS there is, the slower the page loads, and the lower the page traffic and conversation rate.

Continue reading the full article here: https://journal.hexmos.com/css-mistakes/

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