Choose a version:
44% The original file has 135079 bytes (131.9k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 60010 bytes (58.6k, 44%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:
Microsoft
  22120 bytes (21.6k)
 CDN
unpkg
  19745 bytes (19.3k)
 CDN
cdnjs
  16115 bytes (15.7k)
 CDN
gzip -6 (default)
  15942 bytes (15.6k)
 local copy
MaxCDN
  15919 bytes (15.5k)
 CDN
jsdelivr
  15919 bytes (15.5k)
 CDN
gzip -9
  15876 bytes (15.5k)
 local copy
Yandex
  15871 bytes (15.5k)
 CDN
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip
  15370 bytes (15.0k)
 local copy
libdeflate -12
  15369 bytes (15.0k)
 local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b2
  15340 bytes (15.0k)
 local copy
zultra
  15334 bytes (15.0k)
 local copy
pigz -11 -n
  15316 bytes (15.0k)
 local copy
Zopfli
  15306 bytes (14.9k)
 local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/bootstrap/bootstrap-4.4.1.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest Bootstrap 4.4.1 file, ETag caching is available and
if your browser doesn't support GZIP decompression then the uncompressed version will be sent.

Currently best Zopfli settings

Save 565 bytes by using my Bootstrap 4.4.1 Zopfli version instead of the best available CDN (3.69% smaller than Yandex, 15306 vs. 15871 bytes):
Download
You can use my super-compressed files for whatever purpose you like as long as you respect the library's original license agreement.
There are no restrictions from my side - but please avoid hot-linking if you run a high-traffic website.

These command-line settings yielded the best compression ratio so far (Linux version of zopfli-krzymod):
zopfli --i1000000 --mb8 --mls128 --bsr17 --lazy --ohh

(found November 29, 2019)
Description Value Parameter
iterations 1000000  --i1000000
maximum blocks 8  --mb8
maximum length score 128  --mls128
block splitting recursion 17  --bsr17
lazy matching in LZ77 yes  --lazy
optimized Huffman headers yes  --ohh
initial random W for iterations 1  --rw1
initial random Z for iterations 2  --rz2

Verify file integrity

After decompression, my uncompressed files are identical to the original ones:

MD5:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/twbs/bootstrap/v4.4.1/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js --location | md5sum
61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/bootstrap/bootstrap-4.4.1.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533  -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/twbs/bootstrap/v4.4.1/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js --location | sha1sum
b3c116c65e6f053aaab45e5619a78ec00271a50f  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/bootstrap/bootstrap-4.4.1.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
b3c116c65e6f053aaab45e5619a78ec00271a50f  -

All listed CDNs deliver identical contents:
CDN Size (compressed) MD5 (uncompressed) Timestamp
Microsoft 22120 bytes 61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533 December 5, 2019 @ 22:01
unpkg 19745 bytes 61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533 (invalid)
cdnjs 16115 bytes 61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533 (invalid)
MaxCDN 15919 bytes 61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533 November 28, 2019 @ 18:52
jsdelivr 15919 bytes 61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533 December 1, 2019 @ 05:23
Yandex 15871 bytes 61f338f870fcd0ff46362ef109d28533 April 8, 2020 @ 16:58

Note: only the MD5 hashes are shown to keep things simple.

Other Versions

Available Bootstrap versions at minime.stephan-brumme.com:

5.2.3, 5.2.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.0,
5.1.3, 5.1.2, 5.1.1, 5.1.0,
5.0.2, 5.0.1, 5.0.0,
4.6.0,
4.5.3, 4.5.2, 4.5.1, 4.5.0,
4.4.1, 4.4.0,
4.3.1, 4.3.0,
4.2.1, 4.2.0,
4.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1, 4.1.0, 4.0.0,
3.4.1, 3.4.0,
3.3.7, 3.3.6, 3.3.5, 3.3.4, 3.3.2, 3.3.1, 3.3.0,
3.2.0,
3.1.1, 3.1.0,
3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0

The project site contains an overview how well these versions were compressed.
Other interesting projects are AngularJS, BackboneJS, D3, Dojo, Ember, jQuery, Knockout, lodash, React, Socket.IO, ThreeJS, UnderscoreJS and Vue.

Changelog

Best Zopfli parameters so far:
Size Improvement Parameters Found
15306 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000000 --mls128 --bsr17 --lazy --ohh November 29, 2019 @ 22:31
15307 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i100000 --mls128 --bsr17 --lazy --ohh November 29, 2019 @ 14:07
15308 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i10000 --mls16384 --bsr14 --lazy --ohh November 28, 2019 @ 20:28
15309 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i10000 --mls2 --bsr20 --lazy --ohh November 28, 2019 @ 19:55
15310 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls2048 --bsr19 --lazy --ohh November 28, 2019 @ 18:28
15311 bytes – zopfli --i100 --mls2048 --bsr10 --lazy --ohh November 28, 2019 @ 18:16

If there are multiple parameter sets yielding the same compressed size, only the first one found is shown.

Most recent activity on July 20, 2020 @ 12:53.

Heatmaps

This Zopfli heatmap visualizes how compression changes when modifying the --bsr and --mls parameter.
Cell's contents is the best filesize achieved (in bytes, hover with mouse over cells to see number of iterations).

Good parameters are green, bad are red. The best and worst are bold as well.
The brightness of the blue background color indicates how many iterations were processed:
10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000.
bsr \ mls
2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768
bsr \ mls
2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768
2 15323 15322 15310 15314 15323 15321 15315 15317 15316 15317 15309 15319 15322 15323 15322
4 15309 15309 15311 15310 15308 15310 15310 15312 15310 15310 15311 15317 15323 15310 15311
6 15308 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15312 15309 15309 15309 15324 15322 15308 15310
7 15309 15312 15309 15309 15309 15309 15310 15311 15309 15309 15309 15310 15321 15309 15338
8 15308 15312 15326 15312 15309 15309 15310 15312 15309 15309 15309 15323 15318 15308 15327
9 15309 15309 15309 15311 15309 15312 15310 15312 15309 15309 15309 15324 15322 15310 15312
10 15309 15312 15309 15310 15309 15309 15310 15312 15309 15309 15308 15310 15322 15309 15310
11 15309 15309 15309 15312 15309 15309 15309 15310 15309 15309 15310 15310 15322 15309 15309
12 15309 15312 15308 15312 15309 15309 15310 15312 15311 15309 15309 15310 15321 15308 15310
13 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15310 15312 15309 15309 15309 15324 15321 15309 15338
14 15309 15309 15309 15312 15309 15309 15310 15310 15308 15309 15310 15316 15320 15308 15326
15 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15310 15312 15309 15309 15309 15316 15321 15321 15310
16 15308 15312 15309 15310 15309 15310 15310 15312 15308 15309 15309 15325 15320 15308 15310
17 15308 15312 15309 15309 15310 15309 15306 15312 15311 15308 15309 15323 15321 15308 15319
18 15309 15309 15309 15309 15310 15309 15310 15312 15309 15309 15311 15310 15323 15308 15320
19 15309 15312 15309 15312 15309 15309 15310 15311 15308 15324 15309 15324 15321 15308 15340
20 15309 15308 15309 15311 15310 15309 15309 15311 15309 15310 15309 15310 15322 15310 15311
21 15309 15308 15309 15312 15309 15309 15309 15310 15309 15309 15309 15319 15321 15309 15322
22 15308 15309 15309 15309 15310 15310 15306 15311 15309 15310 15309 15323 15321 15308 15338
23 15308 15308 15309 15311 15309 15309 15309 15311 15309 15309 15309 15322 15321 15308 15322
25 15309 15312 15308 15312 15309 15309 15306 15312 15309 15309 15309 15324 15321 15308 15320
30 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15309 15306 15310 15309 15309 15310 15325 15321 15308 15322
40 15309 15309 15308 15311 15309 15309 15309 15312 15308 15311 15308 15311 15321 15307 15310

Due to the Monte Carlo design of my search algorithm, not all parameters have reached the same number of iterations yet:
Iterations Min. Bytes Reduction Coverage
100 15311 bytes – 100%
1,000 15310 bytes -1 byte 100%
10,000 15308 bytes -2 bytes 100%
100,000 15307 bytes -1 byte 10.72%
1,000,000 15306 bytes -1 byte 1.16%
10,000,000 – – –

KZIP has far less options available for tuning/optimization. I only played around with the number of blocks (parameter -n):
Blocks Min. Bytes Compared To Best Zopfli Compared To Best KZIP
(any) 15382 bytes +76 bytes (+0.50%) +42 bytes
1 15380 bytes +74 bytes (+0.48%) +40 bytes
2 15340 bytes +34 bytes (+0.22%) –
3 15344 bytes +38 bytes (+0.25%) +4 bytes
4 15352 bytes +46 bytes (+0.30%) +12 bytes
5 15382 bytes +76 bytes (+0.50%) +42 bytes
6 15412 bytes +106 bytes (+0.69%) +72 bytes
7 15445 bytes +139 bytes (+0.91%) +105 bytes
8 15478 bytes +172 bytes (+1.12%) +138 bytes

Non-DEFLATE Algorithms

Archivers based on completely different compression algorithms often produce superior results.
Unfortunately, browsers only support gzip compression at the moment.
However, support for Brotli is constantly growing - for example, your browser actually supports it !
Algorithm Program Parameters Size Compared To Best Zopfli
RAR (proprietary) RAR rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1 12750 bytes -2556 bytes (-16.70%)
ZPAQ (Wikipedia) zpaq zpaq -method 69 13034 bytes -2272 bytes (-14.84%)
Brotli (Wikipedia) brotli brotli -q 11 13945 bytes -1361 bytes (-8.89%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia) bzip2 bzip2 -9 14715 bytes -591 bytes (-3.86%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia) xz xz -9 14772 bytes -534 bytes (-3.49%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia) zstd zstd -19 14972 bytes -334 bytes (-2.18%)
PPMd (Wikipedia) 7zip 7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd 15276 bytes -30 bytes (-0.20%)

Detailled Analysis

I wrote a DEFLATE decoder in Javascript. Click the button below to start a client-side analysis of the smallest gzipped files (may take a second):
Load and Parse Data


Notes: pigz is a fast open source multi-threaded implementation of gzip written by one of the original authors of gzip.
However, when using compression level 11, pigz actually switches to the slower Zopfli algorithm and isn't multi-threaded anymore.
KrzyMOD's extensions to Zopfli offer the highest level of configuration and is therefore used for my brute-force search.
Ken Silverman wrote the closed-source KZIP compression program and Jonathon Fowler ported it to Linux.
Defluff was created by Joachim Henke; DeflOpt is a tool by Ben Jos Walbeehm.

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which was handsomely compressed before releasing it into the wild internet - obviously.

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