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Comment by pankratiev | Hacker News Reader

This suggestion from Google especially looks fun:

The following publicly cacheable, compressible resources should have a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header:

    * http://www.google.com/buzz/api/button.js

However, it's a useful tool. It gives me useful suggestions for improving.

Anybody knows a simple tool to minify javascript?

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I often use the Closure Compiler at http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/ (online) and http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/ (offline)

Many thanks! I've just found a simple tutorial of how to use it in Python script: http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tutorial1.h...

So, I've written my own script, which minified seven js-files with total size 84.8 KB to one file with size 26.7 KB. Plus gzip and it will be very small.

Thanks again.

There is also UglifyJS https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS which is build on Node.

Here's an ugly GUI for Uglify: http://alexsexton.com/uglifui/

I think I've been using the Google PageSpeed Plugin (Firefox only though) to minify JS, CSS and shrink PNGs.

Here ya go: http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=javascript+minify

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