Website performance affects SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and besides that it’s more convenient for your visitors if your website loads quickly. There are many ways to improve and optimize your website performance. One of them is to compress and minify your CSS and JavaScript.
These two static files are usually used in modern websites, either to increase usability or to make your homepage beautiful. But often these two static files (CSS and JavaScript) have a lot of empty spaces which make your file size larger and waste bandwidth. Compressed and minified CSS and JavaScript are two important values in Google Page Speed tools for evaluating your website performance. A higher score means better performance.
There are many tools to minify and compress CSS and JavaScript files. Two which are the best for me are CSS Compressor and JavaScript Compressor. CSS Compressor and JavaScript Compressor offer you a free service. CSS Compressor can help you to minify, optimize, and compress your CSS files and gives you many options to make your optimized CSS better. What you have to do is open all your CSS files, copy and paste them on their website, and choose Highest compression. Same goes for JavaScript Compressor — all you have to do is copy and paste all your JavaScript and compress it.
After all processes are finished, you are left with only 1 CSS file and 1 JavaScript file, which are optimized. You can replace your website’s CSS and JavaScript with just 2 files. This will improve your website performance, since the smaller file size will decrease download time and save bandwidth.
So in the end, what you get from minifying your CSS and JavaScript is saved bandwidth, faster loading time, and increased site performance. So what are you waiting for? Have you minified and compressed your CSS and JavaScript files?