Raw file size is meaningless though. For example, if I use long variable names I will have a bigger source file. But with gzip it wouldn’t affect anything at al

Raw file size is meaningless though. For example, if I use long variable names I will have a bigger source file. But with gzip it wouldn’t affect anything at all. You can think of gripped size as a rough measure of the actual information in a file, as opposed to file size which is largely meaningless in a networked environment.