Inline CSS and SEO

[Jay_v]

What are your thoughts on Inline CSS?

This will increase the Page load time which is what the users want but what about the old school seo "text-to-html ratio" ?

Discuses please, tidying up an existing site and noticed huge difference on load time when used Inline CSS. Would like to hear what you guys think.

[banjo]

Any speed benefit is outweighed massively by the time cost of inline code maintenance imo.

Also, when it comes to multiple page loads, so 2+ page visits, css files are faster as the css is downloaded once per session, not on every pageview.

[luckyga]

Any speed benefit is outweighed massively by the time cost of inline code maintenance imo.

I'm in agreement with this as for me I find the gains nominal compared to the hassle of editing. I sometimes run my css through a compressor but make sure it's saved as an easy to read version first that I'll use to make any future edits before re-compressing again.