UPDATE

Site Compressor is now an app on Lobby. To use Site Compressor, download Lobby and install Site Compressor app.

Compressing / minifying a site’s code will improve the data transfer from server to the client. The browser will be easily able to get the content from server. There are a lot of benefits that comes with site compression. I use compression too in my own way. My site Open is heavily compressed.

I compressed sites using Python by using loops to iterate over files and replace strings, compress according to my needs. But, every time I had to open a Terminal to give the request and there will be some kind of errors when something new is added to the site.

Making JavaScript codes is difficult and long. In Web projects, we try our maximum to minify JavaScript and CSS to serve content better. There are many sites on the Web that helps to compress/minify JS code. There is even a PHP Software to do this. In this post, I’ll tell you how to use the PHP jSqueeze library to minify JavaScript code.

Setting Up

You can get the class code of JSqueeze from here. Paste the code into a file called “min-js.php”. We will include this file to compress our code.