diff --git a/components/site/src/lib.rs b/components/site/src/lib.rs
index 13a0f2b9..ffea52ba 100644
--- a/components/site/src/lib.rs
+++ b/components/site/src/lib.rs
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ use tera::{Tera, Context};
 use walkdir::WalkDir;
 
 #[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]
-use sass_rs::{Options, compile_string};
+use sass_rs::{Options, compile_file};
 
 use errors::{Result, ResultExt};
 use config::{Config, get_config};
-use utils::fs::{create_file, read_file, create_directory, ensure_directory_exists};
+use utils::fs::{create_file, create_directory, ensure_directory_exists};
 use content::{Page, Section, populate_previous_and_next_pages, sort_pages};
 use templates::{GUTENBERG_TERA, global_fns, render_redirect_template};
 use front_matter::{SortBy, InsertAnchor};
@@ -462,8 +462,7 @@ impl Site {
 
         for file in files {
             let name = file.as_path().file_stem().unwrap().to_string_lossy();
-            let content = read_file(&file)?;
-            let css = match compile_string(&content, Options::default()) {
+            let css = match compile_file(file.as_path().to_str().unwrap(), Options::default()) {
                 Ok(c) => c,
                 Err(e) => bail!(e)
             };
diff --git a/components/site/test_site/sass/_included.scss b/components/site/test_site/sass/_included.scss
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38fb2b9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/site/test_site/sass/_included.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.container {
+  font-size: 2rem;
+}
diff --git a/components/site/test_site/sass/blog.scss b/components/site/test_site/sass/blog.scss
index ec8af3eb..5a003615 100644
--- a/components/site/test_site/sass/blog.scss
+++ b/components/site/test_site/sass/blog.scss
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ body {
     background: blue;
   }
 }
+
+@import "included";