style sheet html A resource can be “minified” or “compressed” by deleting extraneous or redundant data (such as code comments and formatting, unused code, longer variable and function names, etc.) without impacting the resource’s processing speed by the browser.

To make a website load faster is the goal of minifcation. Minimization can reduce the size of a script by as much as 20%, which means it will download much faster.

To further “obfuscate” their code, some developers will utilize it.

This makes it harder to interpret the code, which in turn makes it harder to duplicate or reverse engineer.

It is also usual practice to merge a website’s CSS files into a single file. There are several advantages to this.

It lessens the amount of HTTP requests needed to retrieve all a website’s elements.

It improves the efficiency of minification and gzip compression as well. You may quickly and easily get a compressed version of your CSS stylesheet by pasting it into this code compressor tool.