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YSlow: Minify JavaScript and CSS

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.

Read our Lighthouse documentation to learn more about CSS and JavaScript minification.

Summary

CSS/JS
Medium
72%

YSlow recommends:

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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