About JavaScript Compression

JavaScript Compression is the practice of deleting unnecessary characters from JavaScript code to shrink its size, and improve its load times. When JavaScript/CSS code is compressed all comments are removed, in addition to unneeded "white space" characters like spacebar, new line, and tab.

This improves load time performance because the size of the file downloaded JavaScript file is often greatly reduced. Two popular tools for minifying JavaScript code are Minify JS JavaScript Compressor and YUI Compressor. Many tools also minify CSS, learn more on CSS minification at MinifyCSS.com.

The JavaScript compressor tool has optional advanced features to give you more control over how you minify your JavaScript. For those that are advanced you have the option to compress in 4 different formats: high ASCII, numeric encoding, normal encoding and even no encoding at all. One click is all you need to speed up your page load time by up to 80%! Additionally, our JavaScript Compressor works with all styles of JavaScript.Really, it couldn’t be easier to speed up your website... even if you know nothing about JavaScript compression or programming code.

It shouldn't be news to you that the smaller the KB size of a loaded webpage and its JavaScripts - the faster the page loads. But a faster loading scripts aren't the only benefit you will get after you compressing your JavaScript code, you can also expect: a better user experience, less load on your web server(s), a significantly lower bandwidth bill and many other positive advantages that we could write about for hours.

There is no reason we can give on why JS compression is not beneficial on every level. So start compressing your JavaScript code now!