minifying the website

[w0rp]

On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:12:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I've been looking through the logs and it looks like the top 
> files in bytes transferred yesterday (even with the deluge of 
> downloads) were a number of Javascript, HTML, and CSS files.
>
> There are programs to reduce the size of such files called 
> "minifiers". Should we use some? If so, what would the experts 
> recommend? We'd need ideally some command line utility that we 
> can deploy easily and integrate with the build process. 
> Alternatively, an online service could fit the bill, too.
>
>
> Thanks for your insights,
>
> Andrei

I recommend YUI Compressor. http://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/ I 
use it for compressing JavaScript and CSS at my job, and it works 
very well. (It's also part of a Maven build script at my job, 
which is also cool.) If you use it, I recommend --nomunge 
--preserve-semi --disable-optimizations so it doesn't do any 
JavaScript fiddling beyond just minification.