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Courses Plus Student 14,966 PointsCan anyone recommend some Minify tools please
Anyone got any good minify tools they can recommend please for CSS and HTML please
4 Answers
Alexander Smith
2,769 PointsIt's becoming a more common feature in editors actually. If you use sublime text there are a few options but one of the first google results was https://github.com/bistory/Sublime-Minifier.
However don't expect a huge increase in speed. Minification of HTML and CSS honestly does almost nothing in regards to speed (while yes it can't really hurt it shouldn't be the first thing you look at in regards to load times).
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 PointsHi Alexander thanks for that. I am Dreamweaver all the way (don't panic - only the code editor unless I am feeling really laze when selecting code).
I am looking at it as part of an overall strategy to maximise speed on my sites.
G
Ajinkya Borade
Courses Plus Student 16,635 Pointstry www.csscompressor.com i use it too
James Barnett
39,199 PointsMinifying is hardly worth the effort.
Instead you should look at combining stylesheets into one to limit HTTP requests, use gzip compression which will save nearly all of the file size of the whitespace and set caching in the meta tag.
I use a PHP script to do all of those on-the-fly http://manas.tungare.name/software/css-compression-in-php/