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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:23:54+00:00

I’m trying to optimize my website. I have a few plugins to include (jquery

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I’m trying to optimize my website. I have a few plugins to include (jquery plugins with CSS), and my own javascript code.

Now I have the CSS in separate files for different plugins, as I downloaded them. And if I need one on the actual page, I generate code to include that. The same with the JS files. But when it comes to render a complex page with a lot of stuff, 9 CSS files can be called and 7 or 8 JS files, each of which are HTTP requests.

Should I put the CSS into one big file to reduce the number of included CSS files? But then everything will be interpreted by the browser even if the current page doesn’t need so much stuff.

I’ve thought of a third way: generate CSS and JS files with PHP. Then it’ll be always one JS and one CSS file, and only with the things which are needed. Or is it an absurd way?

What do you say, which to use to reduce page load time?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is better to include all CSS in a file and all JS in a file and the minify them using many online services that minify and compress CSS and Javascript. this will reduce the number of http requests as well as volume of data to be downloaded.

    If you generate CSS with php then the CSS and JS should be downloaded with every page and generating them takes some time, but if you pack them in one file it downloads once and the browsers caches it.

    if your site has many different sections and packing all css in a file makes a huge file then you can pack CSS in two or three file and in each section load the related one.

    reducing number of http request is very important.

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