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So what you would need is a bit of logic that applies your site-wide css to your landing page html on the server side and sends that to the browser, either on demand or by statically producing a transformed html page. Does anybody know about something like that? "html css server" are not really the terms to enter into a search engine if you want specific results...

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There's probably not anything like that because it's a fairly rare situation. A particular company is only going to have one page like that, it'd be easier just to make the custom css for that page.

No, you really just want to use inline CSS. Is it really worth all of the trouble just to cache 3 kilobytes of data (probably 20 milliseconds of download time)?

That is what I said, yes, except that I wanted a tool that does the inlining. But as another comment said, that tool would probably not worth the hassle, too.

I'm not totally sure what you mean by tool. Whatever framework you're using surely can include an external file, and if not, even Apache itself can handle this via SSI. It really depends what your web app looks like.

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