Jul 1 2008
How to Fix the Bloated (CSS and JavaScript) Code that is Jacking Up Your SEO
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Last Thursday I started a conversation about how code bloat can effect your site’s performance with the search engines. Today I’m going to map some specific types of code bloat and very briefly, and non-technically, show you you can eliminate the bloat to improve your pages performance for both visitors and search engines.
There are generally four things that cause code bloat:
- On-page styling
- On-page JavaScripts
- Excessive table usage
- Poor HTML formatting
