Mike GraftonMike Grafton
 Standup 3/13/2009
edit Posted by Mike Grafton on Friday March 13, 2009 at 05:16PM

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What is better for optimizing the load time of pages on the iPhone: minifying or packing your javascript?

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  1. grosser grosser on March 17, 2009 at 06:16PM

    id opt for using YUI minifier, as long as much of the JS is private, thats almost as small as packing... (e.g. through advertisement reduce http://github.com/grosser/reduce/tree/master)

  2. Davis W. Frank Davis W. Frank on March 18, 2009 at 03:37AM

    Did I miss this at Standup on Thursday? I wasn't at Friday standup.

    The killer on cell networks is latency of connection more than the size of what you're downloading.

    Some things to try:

    • pack & gzip all your CSS into one file
    • pack & gzip all your internal JS into one file (minifying is likely useless)
    • reference any external JS libraries via the Google cached versions - there are chances an iPhone already has them cached locally
    • reduce the number of unique (i.e., low chance of cacability) of images on your pages