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Minifying does more. Original: 26282 Minified: 10562 Gzipped Original: 7633 Gzipped Minified: 4109

• z3t4 9y ago
  Not only does minifying save bandwidth it will also make the script parse and run faster! We are talking about 30% speed increase! It's huge! We'll save ONE MILLISECOND! Seriously though, minifying does only make sense on huge scale, I would need to serve that script 15,000 times per second to saturate a GbE link. And for those poor users who pay outrageous costs for downstream by the MB, they would save around 0.003 cent if it was minified. Lets instead consider the costs for minifying the script, like being able to more easily debug it in production. And maybe someone wants to actually view the source code, figure out how it works, and tinker with it, now that's worth something!
  • allover 9y ago
    You're forgetting about mobile phones. Seriously, bytes matter because mobile networks suck, especially in emerging markets. Minification is worth it. Make the source code available on github.
  • anc84 9y ago
    Hi, I am currently paying 15$ for 75MB of data. Thank you very much to everyone who obsessively optimise their web code, as it is worth it for weirdos like me.