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Years ago, I was staunchly in the “minify your code, even if you use gzip” camp. But these days, I’ve switched teams!
I did some tests on the bundled version of Kelp UI.
- Unminifed: 58.2kb
- Minified: 43kb
- Unminified + gzipped: 8.2kb
- Minified + gzipped: 7.4kb
I don’t think making your code unreadable for humans and harder to debug is worth saving 0.8kb of file size.
Both versions are far less than a single HTTP round trip. The performance difference between the two would be negligible.
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This content originally appeared on Go Make Things and was authored by Go Make Things
Go Make Things | Sciencx (2025-07-25T14:30:00+00:00) Minification doesnt matter much. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/07/25/minification-doesnt-matter-much/
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