Cleaning Code

[LAMA]

Not really sure if this is the right topic to put this into, but I was wondering all over I see 'you should clean up your code', 'it will load faster if you clean it up'. I was just wondering how do you go about 'cleaning your code' and does it actually make the page load faster?

[soltek]

Makes no difference if you mean the visual formatting of the code. Howeer if you mean removing duplicate tags and improperly nested tags your absolutely correct.

[Ricky]

Hi!


Since HTML and other web building codes are instructions for web browsers for how to display a webpage, there shouldn't be any useless or non standard elements in your codes. The more you have of them, the more heavy your page is and the more slowly it will load. Indeed, Clean web coding makes faster load.

You can be sure you respect the w3c standard by validating your pages here

Hope this helps


Ricky

[vgarcia]

Not really sure if this is the right topic to put this into, but I was wondering all over I see 'you should clean up your code', 'it will load faster if you clean it up'. I was just wondering how do you go about 'cleaning your code' and does it actually make the page load faster?

When somebody says "clean up code" it probably means that the code is a mess and there are a lot of tags that aren't really doing anything. Example:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<font face="Verdana"><font size="3"><font color="red"><b>Hello</b></font></font></font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

This is obviously a bad example, but bear with me.
That code above can easily be translated into something like this:

<div style="padding: 10px; font: bold 15px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: red;">Hello</div>

There is far less code in the second example than in the first even though they both give the same effect. Doing this will make your file size that much smaller. Smaller file sizes = faster loading pages.

[soltek]

Thanks for clarifying this garcia.

We also need your help here.....people can be quite simple minded sometimes..

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165194