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How to Minify Compress Uglify Javascript

As you might have seen on the “How to: Minify CSS” article, minification helps speeding up websites.

The minification and therefor compression or in our case ‘uglification’ of JavaScript serves just the same purpose.

This would transform your JavaScript code form this

<div class="wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block"><pre>var isFunction = function isFunction( obj ) {

      // Support: Chrome <=57, Firefox <=52
      // In some browsers, typeof returns "function"; for HTML <object> elements
      // (i.e., `typeof document.createElement( "object" ) === "function"`).
      // We don't want to classify *any* DOM node as a function.
      return typeof obj === "function" &amp;&amp; typeof obj.nodeType !== "number";
  };


var isWindow = function isWindow( obj ) {
		return obj != null &amp;&amp; obj === obj.window;
	};




	var preservedScriptAttributes = {
		type: true,
		src: true,
		noModule: true
	};

	function DOMEval( code, doc, node ) {
		doc = doc || document;

		var i,
			script = doc.createElement( "script" );

		script.text = code;
		if ( node ) {
			for ( i in preservedScriptAttributes ) {
				if ( node[ i ] ) {
					script[ i ] = node[ i ];
				}
			}
		}
		doc.head.appendChild( script ).parentNode.removeChild( script );
	}


function toType( obj ) {
	if ( obj == null ) {
		return obj + "";
	}

	// Support: Android <=2.3 only (functionish RegExp)
	return typeof obj === "object" || typeof obj === "function" ?
		class2type[ toString.call( obj ) ] || "object" :
		typeof obj;
}

to this

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How to Minify Css

Why would you want to minify CSS and what does it mean?

Minification of cascading style sheets means converting this

/*!
 * Bootstrap v3.3.7 (http://getbootstrap.com)
 * Copyright 2011-2016 Twitter, Inc.
 * Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE)
 */
/*! normalize.css v3.0.3 | MIT License | github.com/necolas/normalize.css */
html {
  font-family: sans-serif;
  -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
      -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
body {
  margin: 0;
}
article,
aside,
details,
figcaption,
figure,
footer,
header,
hgroup,
main,
menu,
nav,
section,
summary {
  display: block;
}
audio,
canvas,
progress,
video {
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: baseline;
}
audio:not([controls]) {
  display: none;
  height: 0;
}
[hidden],
template {
  display: none;
}
a {
  background-color: transparent;
}
a:active,
a:hover {
  outline: 0;
}
abbr[title] {
  border-bottom: 1px dotted;
}
b,
strong {
  font-weight: bold;
}
dfn {
  font-style: italic;
}
h1 {
  margin: .67em 0;
  font-size: 2em;
}
mark {
  color: #000;
  background: #ff0;
}
small {
  font-size: 80%;
}
sub,
sup {
  position: relative;
  font-size: 75%;
  line-height: 0;
  vertical-align: baseline;
}
sup {
  top: -.5em;
}
sub {
  bottom: -.25em;
}
img {
  border: 0;
}
svg:not(:root) {
  overflow: hidden;
}
figure {
  margin: 1em 40px;
}
hr {
  height: 0;
  -webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
     -moz-box-sizing: content-box;
          box-sizing: content-box;
}
pre {
  overflow: auto;
}
code,
kbd,
pre,
samp {
  font-family: monospace, monospace;
  font-size: 1em;
}
button,
input,
optgroup,
select,
textarea {
  margin: 0;
  font: inherit;
  color: inherit;
}
button {
  overflow: visible;
}
button,
select {
  text-transform: none;
}
button,
html input[type="button"],
input[type="reset"],
input[type="submit"] {
  -webkit-appearance: button;
  cursor: pointer;
}

to this

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Amp It Up

Lúcio, a character from Overwatch

has this skill where he speeds himself and everyone around him up, Google AMP tries to do this as well.

But while the speed goes up, there are some down sides as well.

AMP aims for mobile websites where lower speeds and bandwidths makes websites feel slow which raises the website’s bounce rate.

While there are certain restrictions to AMP, like

  • no JavaScript (which might be confusing at first)
  • stylings in the page’s head or inline
  • no more than 50kB of styling

it also introduces some other problems to the (new) battlefield of “my customer is able to measure my website’s speed, halp”.

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