Reducing pageweight by compressing production css and js files
I’ve been a little obsessed with improving the speed of web pages via minified javascript and css files. YUI’s team not only agrees with this, they recommend gzipping your minified js and css files. For a while I’ve been calling YUI Compressor inside my push to production scripts to do the deed. However, with this new mention of gzipping, I think might be exploring other options such as the method mentioned on the page which originally linked me to that awesome YUI writeup; minifying and gzipping javascript and css on the fly using php.
Dude, you still got loads of work to do
Please see http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/23805/screenshot_070_gnr0fz.png. I created this using Googles Page Analysis tool which integrates with Firebug.
This site is using wordpress, this isn’t what I’m talking about ^_^ — but yes, google page speed is a nice plugin for firebug.
There’s also shrinksafe:
http://shrinksafe.dojotoolkit.org/