This document discusses various techniques for optimizing CSS files, including gzipping to reduce file size, minimizing CSS to remove unnecessary characters, reusing code across stylesheets, and using smaller selectors. It notes that 21% of the top 1000 websites have over 100kb of CSS and describes tools like YUI Compressor that can be used to minify CSS files. Examples of optimization techniques include Facebook's use of "Big Pipe" to improve loading speeds by 50%.