--- title: "Here's how I increased a website performance by 21%!" url: https://daily.dev/posts/here-s-how-i-increased-a-website-performance-by-21--dpxz-uwmv source_url: https://dev.to/mrpaulishaili/heres-how-i-increased-a-website-performance-by-21-7di type: article source: "Community Picks" published: 2022-09-24T14:12:15.447Z updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z tags: ["webdev", "performance", "css", "html"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 79 comments: 5 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Here's how I increased a website performance by 21%! **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 3 min read · 79 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary The total fontawesome package v5.1 is approximately about 12mb (don't worry, we aren't using all!) ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@imjb87** · 2 upvotes > This is still bad advice. By loading the entire FA CSS file you're introducing a render blocking resource, and Google's pagespeed analysis will still flag this. > > A better way is to use SVG and/or literally cherry pick your icon's CSS styles and load it inline in the of your site. This is called "critical-inline CSS". **@ibrahibanat** · 2 upvotes > the content of the article is specific for font awesome while the titile is like a generic cilck bait **@ghost** · 1 upvotes > No FontAwesome, just inline SVGs 😮‍💨 **@ekimcem** · 0 upvotes > 51 is still not enough tho ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/here-s-how-i-increased-a-website-performance-by-21--dpxz-uwmv)