Can I use GZIP compression on files that have been minified by Gulp or Grunt?

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Can I use GZIP compression on files that have been minified by Gulp or Grunt? I wonder if there is a possibility that I have problems with that. Or if I would have an even faster loading on the browser side.

    
asked by anonymous 09.03.2016 / 15:35

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Yes, it is a good idea to minify your files .js and .css and then compress them using gzip .

I did a simple test with jQuery . I downloaded the undiminished jQuery and the minified jQuery: 

-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 258648 Mar 17 23:32 jquery-2.2.2.js
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group  85656 Mar 17 23:32 jquery-2.2.2.min.js

Notice that undiminished jQuery has 258 Kb and minified 85 Kb .

And after that I compressed the two files using the command gzip -9 ( -9 represents the slowest and most effective compression): 

-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group  76515 Mar 17 23:32 jquery-2.2.2.js.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group  29763 Mar 17 23:32 jquery-2.2.2.min.js.gz

The jQuery-only compressed file has 76 Kb , while jQuery and compressed has 29 Kb .

And since you're already using Grunt , take a look at grunt-contrib-compress to automate the compression of the files.

    
18.03.2016 / 03:41
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