One area where I'll disagree is minification. If you're gzipping (which you should be), try running your build without the minification step and compare the re

One area where I'll disagree is minification. If you're gzipping (which you should be), try running your build without the minification step and compare the resulting over-the-wire file sizes. In my tests, the difference has been negligible. Which makes sense--you're just doing a limited text-based compression step before you throw the files at a real compressor, so it tends to be wasted effort. You're certainly never going to enjoy anything like the big shrink of using gzip, optimizing images, or not importing a big library you don't need.