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CSS Deduplication and File Size: What’s Left After Compression:

Analyzing 1,882 style sheets from 123 sites for the performance impact of automated declaration deduplication, after Gzip and Brotli compression.

https://meiert.com/blog/css-deduplication-and-compression/

#webdev #css #performance #maintainability #optimization

💯:

“The Efficiency Trap: Why Optimising Everything Can Backfire, Badly”, The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/08/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50415498

#Efficiency #Optimization #Robustness #Slack #Capacity #Brittleness #Engineering #Fragility #EfficiencyTrap #OverOptimization