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September 8, 2026 · 18 min read

Why Tailwind CSS Is Worth the Extra HTML (I Went and Measured It)

A welcome post, and the argument I keep having in code review: yes, utility classes make your HTML bigger. Here are the actual byte counts from my own migration, why compression loves repeated class names, and why a kilobyte of CSS costs more than a kilobyte of markup.

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