Does My Website Look Big in This? Six Tips to Lower your Page Weight

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  • Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

  • It might be a point of contention for artisanal purists, but even if you’re committed to the artisanal approach, I’d recommend extending your ‘knowledge toolkit’ to include Tailwind CSS. It has excellent documentation, which really helps you get your head around everything it’s doing behind the scenes. Yes, its development builds are large by design, but optimizing for production tree-shakes very efficiently, to the point that most CSS files, compressed, won’t exceed 10kb. As their docs put it:

  • purgecss

    Remove unused CSS

  • If you’re hand-crafting your CSS, using only the exact classes you need, you’ll still probably find that your CSS file size grows as your site does. But it doesn’t need to grow too much — you can remove unused classes with tools like Purge CSS .

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • pagefind

    Static low-bandwidth search at scale

  • Pagefind for site search — Static search that scales incredibly well, for sites up to 100k+ pages. Pagefind is built with low network requests as a primary constraint, and still manages to deliver an extremely polished performance.

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