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Need to check how small you can compress your JavaScript code with various common compression utilities such as Gzip, JSmin, Dojo Skrinksafe, Packer and YUI Compressor? To avoid having to download and install all the various tools you can use CompressorRater to quickly determine which compression technique will be best for your code. According to the author here's why it was built:

As rich web applications are being built with larger JavaScript code bases, the need for JavaScript compression to keep bandwidth and page load times as small as possible is becoming more important for faster load times and more enjoyable user experiences.

I was tipped off to to this handy tool by Alexei White who I work with at Nitobi and more recently on RobotReplay, which is actually the project he using CompressorRater on. Here's an example of the output:

All you have to do is copy and paste your code into a text box on the site and it returns this handy graph. Voila!

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Phil Nash said:

That's really useful, especially for the current climate of relatively heavy JavaScript development!

Thanks!

Thanks Phil. YSlow is another great utility, it's a plugin for FireBug and analyzes a bunch of different criteria on your site/app to identify opportunities to optimize performance.

baker said:

The only thing it doesn't do is test the code to make sure it isn't broken!

Sometimes the loss is compression is worth the hassle of finding it not broken...

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Emlak said:

All you have to do is copy and paste your code into a text box on the site and it returns this handy graph. Voila!
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Sometimes the loss is compression is worth the hassle of finding it not broken...Emlak haberleri

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