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Reduce Your CSS File Size by 20% or More

Douglas Karr Monday, April 25, 2011

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Once a site is developed, it’s pretty typical for the cascading style sheet (CSS) file to grow as you continue to customize your site over time. Even when your designer first loads the CSS, it may have all kinds of extra comments and formatting that are bloating it. Reducing attached files like CSS and JavaScript can help reduce load times when a visitor arrives at your site.

Reducing the file isn’t easy… but, as usual, there are tools out there that can do a great job for you. I happened across CleanCSS, a nice application for formatting your CSS and optimizing the size of the CSS file. I ran our CSS file through it and it reduced the file size by 16%. I did it for one of my clients and it reduced their CSS file about 30%.

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If you’re looking to optimize your JavaScript, Google Labs has a Java product called Closure Compiler free for download – or you can use the online version of Closure Compiler.

Douglas Karr Monday, April 25, 2011

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Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is the founder of the Martech Zone and a recognized expert on digital transformation. Douglas has helped start several successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to launch his own platforms and services. He's a co-founder of Highbridge, a digital transformation consulting firm. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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It all started as a book club.

Yes, I’m serious. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. My first site was Helping Hand, which curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and navigate resources on the Internet. Years later, I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts.

I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. Over time, I discovered that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice. The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly changed the industry.

After reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. I also wanted more control over the look and feel of my blog, so I moved to my domain in 2006 and built my first WordPress site. Since I was focused on marketing technology, I didn’t want the domain with my name to get in the way, so I moved the site (painfully) to its new domain in 2008 where it’s grown ever since.

The Martech Zone is owned and operated by DK New Media, LLC, a company I started in 2009. After working with virtually every major online marketing department in my tenure at ExactTarget and launching Compendium, I knew there was a great demand for my expertise and guidance within such a complex industry.

DK New Media is my company overseeing my publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking gigs. Highbridge is my agency with two other partners that help companies maximize their investment in sales, marketing, and related products. We offer integration, migration, training, strategic consulting, and custom development.

Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Douglas Karr
CEO, DK New Media
VP, Highbridge