❦ 3 septembre 2015 12:23 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@debian.org> :
>> Amazon did a study that showed every ~100ms of page load >> delay lost them 1% in sales. > > It could be that small percentage of Amazon users are impulsive trigger-happy > buyers. :) > However that conclusion is probably wrong due to number of reasons: [...] Please, publish your own study. This number is well known and supported by an entity which is likely to have a population large enough to be significant. >> So yes, minifiers matter. > > IMHO there is more harm than good. The only case for minification that I can > think of is to increase web server capacity a little to cope with flow of new > users following some sort of AD campaign. A poor substitute for capacity > planning or a case when network link is congested. > > Minification makes multiple assumptions such as that web app is perfect and > nobody would ever need to open JS console and report errors. Or that nobody > would like to learn about web site features from non-minified CSS and JS. Let > alone debugging some of us do not like proprietary javascripts running in our > browsers -- minification kills opportunity for security peer review etc. > > Finally, one may think that maintenance cost of minified JavaScripts in > Debian outweighs all the "benefits" by huge margin. Without minification, we'll just ship packages that people won't use. Why would I run a crippled installation of Wordpress that will drive of part of my users to another competitor? We don't turn C into an interpreted language because it would be easier to inspect the resulting binaries. -- Don't stop with your first draft. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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