The quoted size includes gzip compression which is done by the server and undone by your browser before you can save the file. For more, see
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/16e294e2f3b8f3eb http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/563ebd5a961d401 http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/3a5d4093f0c74a4a http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/790dc1745f0816f8 - Richard On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, jayg <jason.guidi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I noticed on the latest release of jquery, the site says download size > is 19KB for production, but the real size is 55.9KB, which is a > substantial difference. Why is it so large? One of the things I have > always liked about jquery is its small footprint, and I would no > longer call this small. Is this an error in the release, or has > jquery really grown so large? I really hope it is not the later, but > the last few releases seem to be following a trend of getting larger > and larger. >
