karl karl 22 Jul 2010

CSSVerificator

CssVerificator is a Rails application which checks 5 CSS items for performances. This prototype has been created by Benoit Goyette.

The Story

Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) recently outlined the Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS. After a survey, Nicolle Sullivan found out that

  • 42% Don’t GZIP CSS
  • 44% Have more than 2 CSS external files
  • 56% Serve CSS with cookies (yummy to eat, bad for static content)
  • 62% Don’t minify (check out the YUI Compressor!)
  • 21% Have greater than 100K of CSS

We then decided to create a service that would help Web developers fix these 5 items only. We believe in small steps.

Service and Source Code

The code is under MIT License. You are welcome to use, fork, improve, twist it. The service is online (bugs included). Any contributions to create a CSS and a design for it would be more than welcome. Do not shoot the messenger and make it better.

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  1. Tweets that mention Le Lab / Pheromone » CSSVerificator -- Topsy.com 22 Jul 2010

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Andy Mabbett, MGZALLP. MGZALLP said: 5 points ♺ @karlpro: CSS Verificator: code by @benoitgoyette Idea of @stubbornella http://lab.pheromone.ca/2010/07/22/cssverificator/ [...]

  2. Jean-François 27 Jul 2010

    bonjour,

    J’aimerais contribuer en vous proposant humblement une maquette :http://swu.me/b/drx

    Merci en tout cas.

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