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Benjamin Johnson
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Apr 10, 2018 ⋅ 6 min read

How CSS works: Parsing & painting CSS in the critical rendering path

Benjamin Johnson Software engineer. Learning every day, one mistake at a time. You can find me online at benjaminjohnson.me.

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3 Replies to "How CSS works: Parsing & painting CSS in the critical rendering path"

  1. that 50% statistic you mentioned at the beginning of the article isn’t actually present in the article you sited… you didn’t make this up, did you?

    1. If you download the full report, you’ll find this statistic in the second sentence of the first paragraph: “Yet 53% of mobile site visitors leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load.”

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