[wp-hackers] Packing JavaScript

[Alex Günsche]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 21:31 +0200, Alex Günsche wrote:
> The overall file size of the gzipped JS files is 256,051 bytes -- the
> file size was again reduced by about 50%. This means, if you combine
> gzipping and compressing, you might be able to reduce the overall
> payload size to 25% of the original size.

Sorry, I forgot to provide a figure for only gzipping all the JS files
(without packing): It's 285,305 bytes.

This means indeed that with a gzipped connection there is only a small
benefit of packing. However, we know that many people cannot use gzip on
their connections, so the idea of packing the JS remains valid -- the
one doesn't hurt the other.

Kind regards,
Alex

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