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by nej 2344 days ago
Reviewing the frontend code, a couple of things stand out.

1) The HTML/CSS code isn't minified.

2) The PNG images can be compressed further (lossless) for extra savings.

3) CSS classes/ids could be further shortened in post-processing.

1 comments

Does HTML ever need minifying? Serving using compression would handle it wouldn’t it?
html minifer mostly just remove the whitespaces. Compression (gzip or brotli) preserves the source, i.e. decompressed file is exactly the same as the original's; whereas minifier alters the source.
Well that’s what I mean. Minifying css/js makes sense as it usually includes a concatenation stage.

Minifying HTML just makes your page source slightly harder to look at. Whitespace would be squashed into almost nothing with in-transit compression.

Probably something nobody ever needs to think of, but as a web dev it’s an argument I’ve had more than once!