Title: Minify CSS
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Minify CSS

 *  [davidsgiftscouk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidsgiftscouk/)
 * (@davidsgiftscouk)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-css-4/)
 * When running Goggle speed check, I get the following
 * Minify CSS Compacting CSS code can save many bytes of data and speed up download
   and parse times. Minify CSS for the following resources to reduce their size 
   by 1.5KiB (26% reduction).Minifying [http://ajax.googleapis.com/…hemes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css?ver=4.5.2](http://ajax.googleapis.com/…hemes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css?ver=4.5.2)
   could save 1.5KiB (26% reduction) after compression.
 * Can anyone explain in step by step plain English way how I go about fixing. I
   do have a plug in installed, which did get rid of some of it, but not these this
   
   Thanks David

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 *  [anne p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anne-p/)
 * (@anne-p)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-css-4/#post-7420299)
 * Hi David,
 * Good for you! Speed counts for a lot.
    Since that css is coming from Google’s
   cdn ([developers.google.com/speed/libraries/#jquery-ui](https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/#jquery-ui)),
   you would have to replace the link to it with the link to the minified version`
   <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.
   min.js"></script>` which you can do if you have access to edit your files directly.
 * It’s possible, though, that that jQuery ui script is being loaded by a plugin,
   in which case, there is not much you can do.
 * Here are some other tips for speeding up your site:
    [premium.wpmudev.org/blog/speeding-up-wordpress/](https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/speeding-up-wordpress/)
   [smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-website/](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-website/)
 * Anne
 *  Thread Starter [davidsgiftscouk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidsgiftscouk/)
 * (@davidsgiftscouk)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-css-4/#post-7420363)
 * Know next to nothing about coding. Can you explain how to replace this link.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-css-4/#post-7420364)
 * [@davidsgiftscouk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidsgiftscouk/), I think
   you can accomplish the minification through a plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/)
 *  [anne p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anne-p/)
 * (@anne-p)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-css-4/#post-7420441)
 * Hi David,
    Was the plugin you used originally to minify your css the same one
   as the one Andrew is recommending? If not, you might try that first before editing
   your files, if, as you say, you know next to nothing about coding.
 * Do you have access to your theme files to edit them?

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