Faster loading of CSS Stylesheets dirven websites

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kendall
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Faster loading of CSS Stylesheets dirven websites

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Hi guys...Im helping build a site that uses alot of CSS. this includes alot of background images in the stylesheet.

my question is...is it unsual for a website with this type of stylesheet to take a while to load?

what can improve faster loading performance?

the site is http://www.triniscene.com/tsv6/home/
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didn't load at all for me... Your webserver/host might be the problem.
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Post by matthijs »

CSS is not the problem. What counts most is - indeed - the amount of images. And the amount of total requests. And size. One advantage of css and css bg images is that usually they are cached, so they won't need to be reloaded again.

See http://www.websiteoptimization.com/serv ... sv6/event/ for a speed report.
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

CSS actually helps in this case. Once the page has loaded once, most of the CSS and images are cached
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