minifying the website

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/31/13 1:19 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:12:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> There are programs to reduce the size of such files called "minifiers".
>
> Are these files gzipped? gzipping them will almost certainly give a much
> bigger effect than any minifier and is trivially easy (in fact, it might
> be as simple as just gzipping the static file, and letting apache serve
> them straight up that way)

I don't know if the server is configured to serve them gzipped. How do I 
figure that out?

Can we count on all modern browsers to ask for gzipped content?


Andrei