# stoyan/cssshrink

CSS minifier

Repository: https://github.com/stoyan/cssshrink
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cssshrink
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2017-09-09T13:51:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4452, "days_push": 3280, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1043, forks 77 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:20.957074+00:00)

## What it is
cssshrink is a Node.js library that minifies CSS, applying aggressive optimizations like converting hex colors to shorter names. It also offers Grunt and Gulp task integrations and a web playground.

## Use cases
- minify css files for production
- shrink css to reduce page load time
- optimize css in a gulp build
- compress css in a grunt task
- reduce css size on the critical rendering path

## When to choose
- you need aggressive CSS minification in a Node.js or Grunt/Gulp pipeline
- you want simple programmatic CSS shrinking with a tiny API

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained minifier with recent updates
- you need CSS processing beyond minification, such as transpiling or autoprefixing
- your project requires a licensed dependency

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: css-framework, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, performance
- platform: -
- tags: css-minifier, css-optimization, build-pipeline, grunt, gulp, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- stoyan/cssshrink (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.957074+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:02:32.349042+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/stoyan/cssshrink (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.957074+00:00, sha d1bca14b2c66)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/cssshrink (fetched 2026-08-29T13:03:28.146924+00:00, sha 7656ec5f7a0a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.