Don't use @import
# Linked to 13 April 2009, 02:30 in Articles by Sam Brown
In Chapter 5 of High Performance Web Sites, Steve Souders briefly mentions that @import has a negative impact on web page performance. Steve dug into this deeper for his talk at Web 2.0 Expo, creating several test pages and HTTP waterfall charts, all shown below. The bottomline is: use LINK instead of @import if you want stylesheets to download in parallel resulting in a faster page.
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