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silent200
silent200

Reputation:

The file size of jQuery

On jQuery's official website, they say the minified file size is 18k, but after downloading, I found that is 53.9K, do I have to do something to compress it after downloading?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4272

Answers (2)

Espo
Espo

Reputation: 41919

If you want to use less bandwidth both from your server, and to your visitors, you should let Google host jQuery for you. Reasons (from encosia.com):

  • Decreased Latency
  • Increased parallelism
  • Better caching

Here is one way to do it. (The other way is with google.load(), see the link above):

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    // Your code here
  });
</script>

Upvotes: 8

Ryan Doherty
Ryan Doherty

Reputation: 38740

The website states it's 18k minified and gzipped. So you need to setup your web server to compress JavaScript files to see that file size.

Upvotes: 9

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