Minify and Compress Content

• Fewer bytes == faster load time
• Happier Users :)
• Less Bandwidth

Minify Content

• VS Code Extensions for minify-ing JS and CSS
• Other tools (e.g. gulp, grunt) that might be part of running tasks of your development or publishing workflow.
  Or even "bundler" tools (e.g. webpack, browserify)

Minified files can be 25% to 35% smaller!

Compress Content

mod_deflate compresses content before sending to web browser.

Simple use:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

Does Compressing Help?

• 70 to 75% reduction for text files (markup, CSS, non-minified JS)
• 50% reduction even for 'minified' JS

This can make a noticable different in the total page weight!