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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 02:34:34 JST Eaton

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   • javi

   @javi I won’t claim to be an expert, but front end performance of the code itself has *always* been orders of magnitude more significant than the raw size of the code being downloaded

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     javi@goblin.band's status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 02:34:35 JST javi

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     • Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧

     @[alda@topspicy.social](mailto:alda@topspicy.social): @[baldur@toot.cafe](mailto:baldur@toot.cafe): one of the most knowledgeable person on these subject I've ever met once told me that removing a single image from a site would do much more for performance than any transform you could apply to code, as long as your server were gziping it.
     
     I've found no reason to believe he was wrong.

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     Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 02:34:37 JST Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧

     Serious question: Do we *really* need to minify our JS and CSS files?

     Does it matter at all if we're gzipping the HTTP streams anyway?

     Edit: Just to be perfectly clear, by wondering if it matters, I'm not asking how many kb I may or may not be saving per request, but if it affects the user experience in a meaningful way like LCF due to large images with undefined dimensions does.