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Hi getting close to finishing my coding and looking into compressions but can not find out if it advisable to do the following:
Is it best to minify scripts and html and use http compression
or
is http compression enough without minify?
You can do both. They do different jobs — minification actually eliminates unnecessary characters from the JavaScript code, while http compression will only squish them down.
Since http compression is done by the server automatically, it’s always a good idea to leave it on. Minification is an additional step which you CAN use, but (a) isn’t really helpful with small scripts and (b) should only be done as a final step before deployment anyway. In other words, you should only have to do it once anyhow.