On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:12:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello,
I've been looking through the logs and it looks like the top
files in bytes transferred yesterday (even with the deluge of
downloads) were a number of Javascript, HTML, and CSS files.
There are programs to reduce the size of such files called
"minifiers". Should we use some? If so, what would the experts
recommend? We'd need ideally some command line utility that we
can deploy easily and integrate with the build process.
Alternatively, an online service could fit the bill, too.
Thanks for your insights,
Andrei
The site currently isn't configured to serve gzip / deflate
compressed content. Fixing this will lower bandwidth usage in a
much more significant way than serving minified files would. I
think mod_deflate is used for this in Apache.
