I never understood why is everyone minifying all the JS/CSS/HTML stuff when anyways when you enable Gzip on the server side, everything gets much higher compression over the wire... isn't this just counter productive?
tx for input
Sean
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Because it decrease size of javascript file and so it loads faster.
It's just one thing of a huge list developers do in order to optimize/tune websites. F.x. you also may find that somebody merged few JS into 1 bigger JS file so instead of f.x. 5 requests you will get 1. It's all about to deliver webpage to end-user faster.
Google likes fast website, so the faster your deliver page to end user the higher rank your pages will get.
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