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Minification is free and is done only once. In our case, the script is .9kb compressed (2.9kb uncompressed). When minified, it goes down to .6kb compressed (1.1kb uncompressed). It’s a small improvement, but there’s no reason to ignore it.


Saves over 50% of bandwidth ... "it's a small improvement". ^_^


They mean the 300 bytes shaved from gzip to minified+gzip.

Both are under MTU size of TCP packet.




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