If you've read some of my speed tips, you know that you should put your CSS in external style sheets because those help your whole site load more quickly. But some people will then load two or more external style sheets, and this can negte the speed gains from using an external style sheet because of the extra HTTP requests. Learn why you should only use one external style sheet.

Speed Up Your Web Pages

• Use One External CSS File to Speed Up Page Downloads
• Put CSS in External Style Sheets to Speed Page Downloads
• Use CSS Text Instead of Images to Speed Page Downloads
• Remove Comments from HTML to Speed Download Time

External Style Sheets are Faster Than Embedded and Inline Style Sheets originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, January 10th, 2011 at 08:20:30.

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