It’s quite obvious that the smaller the files that make up your website are, the less time your visitors will wait for them to download. One way of reducing file sizes is minimising JavaScript and CSS files by removing comments and whitespace, among other things.

To do that, you can either let the server do it for you or minimise the files yourself before uploading them to the server. Letting the server do it automatically is probably the most convenient way since you don’t have to remember to do it. But it isn’t practical or possible for everyone to use something like minify, so sometimes you’ll need to do it manually.

That may sound like more trouble than it’s worth. Luckily for us TextMate users there’s a handy YUI Compressor TextMate bundle that makes it almost as transparent as the server-side solution.

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