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Potential impact of cloning a large style guide in Webflow

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HELP A NEWBIE OUT!!! Hi, im new to web design and webflow in general & i have a question, when using Relume i have to clone the style guide and is huge, will that affect my website´s loading speed?

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the clonable file size will not affect your page speed. This is just the file size - its a webflow bug that also includes historical backup snapshots in the file and obviously the file is a couple years old with many changes in it.

Thanks Matt but was i refering to is that it ads alot of classes

okay sure, I understand now. I would say no, in general its not going to impact your performance in a significant way. Its something that you would need to take into consideration sure, but the style guide in itself is not going to slow your site down. In addition to a fully built website, sure its adding some classes.

Here is more on this topic from Finsweet, the creator of Client-First - which is what our components are based on.
https://finsweet.com/client-first/docs/spacing-strategy#faq-are-empty-divs-bad-for-my-website

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