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Critical Path CSS generation & inlining
npm install -g critical
Include:
var critical = require('critical');
###Generate and inline critical-path CSS
critical.generateInline({
base: 'dist/',
src: 'index.html',
styleTarget: 'styles/main.css',
htmlTarget: 'index-critical.html',
width: 320,
height: 480,
minify: true
});
###Generate critical-path CSS
Basic usage:
critical.generate({
base: 'test/',
src: 'index.html',
dest: 'styles/main.css',
width: 320,
height: 480,
});
Generate and minify critical-path CSS:
critical.generate({
base: 'test/',
src: 'index.html',
width: 320,
dest: 'styles/styles.min.css',
minify: true,
height: 480
});
Generate and return output via a callback:
critical.generate({
base: 'test/',
src: 'index.html',
width: 320,
height: 480,
}, function (err, output){
// You now have critical-path CSS
// Works with and without dest specified
});
###Inline <style>
/ critical CSS from generation
Basic usage:
critical.inline({
base: 'test/',
src: 'index-critical.html',
dest: 'inlined.html'
});
Minify and inline stylesheets:
critical.inline({
base: 'test/',
src: 'index-critical.html',
dest: 'inlined-minified.html',
minify: true
});
Inline and return output via a callback:
critical.inline({
base: 'test/',
src: 'index-critical.html',
}, function (err, output){
// You now have HTML with inlined critical-path CSS
// Works with and without dest specified
});
###Options
####base
Type: String
Base directory in which the source and destination are to be written.
####src
Type: String
Location of the HTML source to be operated against.
####dest
Type: String
Location of where to save the output of an operation.
####width
Type: integer
(Generation only) Width of the target viewport.
####height
Type: integer
(Generation only) Height of the target viewport.
####minify
Type: boolean
Enable minification of CSS output
####styleTarget
Type: string
(generateInline only) Destination for critical-path styles
####htmlTarget
Type: string
(generateInline only) Destination for (critical-path CSS) style-inlined HTML
CSS is required to construct the render tree for your pages and JavaScript will often block on CSS during initial construction of the page. You should ensure that any non-essential CSS is marked as non-critical (e.g. print and other media queries), and that the amount of critical CSS and the time to deliver it is as small as possible.
For best performance, you may want to consider inlining the critical CSS directly into the HTML document. This eliminates additional roundtrips in the critical path and if done correctly can be used to deliver a “one roundtrip” critical path length where only the HTML is a blocking resource.
I recommend using Penthouse directly if your app has a large number of styles or stylesheets being dynamically injected into the DOM. Critical is best used when your page uses a fixed set of stylesheets as we can automatically scrape this for you, avoiding the overhead of passing known styles yourself manually to Penthouse.
Apache 2.0
Copyright 2014 Google Inc
v0.1.3 / 2014-07-04
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Extract & Inline Critical-path CSS from HTML
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