PageSpeed: Avoid CSS @import
Overview
Using CSS @import in an external stylesheet can add additional delays during the loading of a web page.
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Details from Google
CSS @import allows stylesheets to import other stylesheets. When CSS @import is used from an external stylesheet, the browser is unable to download the stylesheets in parallel, which adds additional round-trip times to the overall page load. For instance, if first.css
contains the following content:
@import url("second.css")
The browser must download, parse, and execute first.css
before it is able to discover that it needs to download second.css
.
Read our Lighthouse documentation to learn more on avoiding CSS @import.