I would imagine that http gzip compression would cut transmission size just as well regardless of whether the file text is minified or not. And I would be wron

I would imagine that http gzip compression would cut transmission size just as well regardless of whether the file text is minified or not. And I would be wrong; this guy found that gzipped minified text can be 50% smaller than the original gzipped file: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807119/gzip-versus-minify http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807119/gzip-versus-minify