Ajax Minifier - come and get your low hanging fruit

by DotNetNerd 21. December 2009 16:43

Not too long ago Microsoft released the Ajax Minifier, which can be downloaded from codeplex. It's basically just another javascript minifier, but the good thing about is it that the download includes both a commandline tool, an MS Build task and an assembly, so you can do your minification any way you like. Either way you wait to use it is very simple and it is explainted in the chm file which is included in the installation.

Today I finally got around to using it, for a HttpHandler that I wrote to serve some javascripts that I wanted to aggregate into one file and have them minified. It really took no time at all, and reduced my site from needing 13 files to 1 that was reduced in size by a little over 30%. All it required was about 10 lines of code in the HttpHandler (including handling caching). So basically what I am saying is that there is no excuse not to get this performance boost, since it is really low hanging fruit ripe for the plucking.

 

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