On: CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked

[cobookman]

Saving 17% on a the google.com, Facebook.com, and Amazon.com CSS files would make a difference.

Now that also depends on what the TCP packet size is. For example saving 1Byte might not lessen the amount of network traffic needing to be sent.

[underwater → cobookman]

This discussion reminds me of this exploration into compressing JSON data. Unless you're considering the final gzipped size you're doing it wrong:

"In short, if you try to eliminate redundancy by applying some kind of clever transformation or restructuring your data object before piping it to gzip, you will probably just do a crappy job of reimplementing gzip at the wrong layer of abstraction, and get worse results overall." -- https://github.com/wincent/relay/blob/hack/contrib/lightweig...

[jordanwallwork → underwater]

That's a really good point. A minified that output code directly optimised to gzip efficiently would be a great thing

[jstummbillig → cobookman]

I very much doubt 17% before gzip on a already minimized css file would make any meaningful difference, to anyone. Check out the compression example on https://css-tricks.com/the-difference-between-minification-a...