YSlow: Minify JavaScript and CSS More Recommendations

Rule Summary

CSS/JS
Medium
81%

Overview

Strip unnecessary characters from JavaScript and CSS to speed up download times.

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Minification removes unnecessary characters from a file to reduce its size, thereby improving load times. When a file is minified, comments and unneeded white space characters (space, newline, and tab) are removed.

This improves response time since the size of the download files is reduced.

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Two popular tools for minifying JavaScript code are JSMin and YUI Compressor. The YUI compressor can also minify CSS.

In addition to minifying external scripts and styles, inlined <script> and <style> blocks can and should also be minified. Even if you gzip your scripts and styles, minifying them will still reduce the size by 5% or more. As the use and size of JavaScript and CSS increases, so will the savings gained by minifying your code.

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