Developer Tools

CSS Minifier & Beautifier

Minify CSS to reduce file size, or beautify minified CSS for readability.

Runs in your browser

Input CSS
Output
Original

Output

Size saved

What is the Css Minifier?

A CSS minifier compresses stylesheets by removing whitespace, comments, and redundant semicolons, reducing the file size that browsers must download before a page can render. Smaller CSS files contribute directly to faster First Contentful Paint (FCP) and better Lighthouse performance scores. Paste your CSS into the editor and the minifier collapses all whitespace to single characters, strips comments, and removes the final semicolons in declaration blocks producing a single-line output that is functionally identical to the original. The tool also supports beautification, expanding minified CSS back into readable, indented form.

How to use the Css Minifier

Paste your stylesheet into the Input CSS panel. Select Minify mode to compress for production or Beautify mode to expand minified CSS for readability. Click the action button or simply start typing the tool processes your CSS live. The savings bar below the editor shows the original and output sizes alongside the percentage reduction. Click Copy to copy the output to your clipboard. For best results in production, also enable gzip or brotli compression on your web server to maximise the benefit of minification.

Frequently asked questions

No CSS minification only removes whitespace, comments, and redundant characters. The computed styles remain identical. Always test in a staging environment before deploying to production.
Typically 20 - 40% on raw file size. Combined with gzip/brotli compression served by your web server, total transfer savings can reach 70 - 85%.
No keep the beautified source in development for easy debugging. Use build tools (Vite, webpack, Laravel Mix) to automatically minify for production builds.
Minify produces the smallest possible file by stripping whitespace and comments. Beautify does the opposite it expands a single-line or poorly formatted stylesheet into indented, human-readable code. Both modes are available in this tool.
No minification preserves all CSS rules and values exactly. However, if you use a purge tool before minifying (to remove unused selectors), always test thoroughly because purgers sometimes remove rules that are added dynamically by JavaScript.