Comparing JavaScript Compression Techniques 
January 26th, 2008
I was doing some research on compression techniques to know what to recommend to customers and found this interesting resource:
CompressorRater
http://compressorrater.thruhere.net/
It runs your JavaScript resource through a variety of different compressors including YUI, JSMin, ShrinkSafe, and of course gZIP and shows a chart with the results. Here is a sample chart for the compression of our new (unreleased) RobotReplay script:
(Note to dave,dre: this includes non-production debug code)
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April 11th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Are you still actively developing robotreplay? No activity on the robotreplay.com site blog for nearly a year, and hardly any mention here.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hey Dan,
Sure are! We’re really close to releasing the next beta. Huge improvements all around.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am
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