Choose a version:
53% The original file has 173966 bytes (169.9k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 91538 bytes (89.4k, 53%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:
Boot
  23745 bytes (23.2k)
 CDN
gzip -6 (default)
  23688 bytes (23.1k)
 local copy
gzip -9
  23583 bytes (23.0k)
 local copy
libdeflate -12
  22772 bytes (22.2k)
 local copy
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip
  22708 bytes (22.2k)
 local copy
zultra
  22703 bytes (22.2k)
 local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b2
  22675 bytes (22.1k)
 local copy
pigz -11 -n
  22668 bytes (22.1k)
 local copy
Zopfli
  22651 bytes (22.1k)
 local copy
cdnjs
  20323 bytes (19.8k)
 CDN

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/socketio/socket.io-1.3.6.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest Socket.IO 1.3.6 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

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 --i100000 --mb8 --mls512 --bsr16 --lazy --ohh

(found July 4, 2016)
Description Value Parameter
iterations 100000  --i100000
maximum blocks 8  --mb8
maximum length score 512  --mls512
block splitting recursion 16  --bsr16
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/socketio/socket.io-client/1.3.6/socket.io.min.js --location | md5sum
38dc67c66183f4f3dc4af8eb5bb31300  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/socket.io/socket.io-1.3.6.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
38dc67c66183f4f3dc4af8eb5bb31300  -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/socketio/socket.io-client/1.3.6/socket.io.min.js --location | sha1sum
95e44cbfd9951ea658db0856a43ddf5ed0796748  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/socket.io/socket.io-1.3.6.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
95e44cbfd9951ea658db0856a43ddf5ed0796748  -

CDN Size (compressed) MD5 (uncompressed) Comment / Diff Timestamp
Boot 23745 bytes 6553172c6dc3b4fa88b3d76b4eb148fc < !function(e){if("object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typ [...]
< this.query=this.query||{};if(!callbacks){if(!global.___eio [...]
< output+=stringFromCharCode(value>>>10&1023|55296);value=56 [...]
> !function(t){if("object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typ [...]
> (!c||e)&&(this.supportsBinary=!1),r.call(this,t)}var r=t(" [...]
> if("null"==i.slice(P,P+4))return P+=4,null;q()}return"$"}, [...]
 (invalid)
cdnjs 20323 bytes 6553172c6dc3b4fa88b3d76b4eb148fc < !function(e){if("object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typ [...]
< this.query=this.query||{};if(!callbacks){if(!global.___eio [...]
< output+=stringFromCharCode(value>>>10&1023|55296);value=56 [...]
> !function(t){if("object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typ [...]
> (!c||e)&&(this.supportsBinary=!1),r.call(this,t)}var r=t(" [...]
> if("null"==i.slice(P,P+4))return P+=4,null;q()}return"$"}, [...]
 (invalid)

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

Other Versions

Available Socket.IO versions at minime.stephan-brumme.com:

4.5.4, 4.5.3, 4.5.2, 4.5.1, 4.5.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.0, 4.2.0, 4.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1, 4.1.0, 4.0.2, 4.0.1, 4.0.0,
3.1.2, 3.1.1, 3.1.0, 3.0.5, 3.0.4, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0,
2.4.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.0, 2.0.4, 2.0.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 2.0.0,
1.7.4, 1.7.2, 1.7.1, 1.7.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.0, 1.4.5, 1.4.4, 1.4.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.0, 1.3.7, 1.3.6, 1.3.5, 1.3.4, 1.3.3, 1.3.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.0, 1.1.0, 1.0.6, 1.0.5, 1.0.4, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0

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

Changelog

Best Zopfli parameters so far:
Size Improvement Parameters Found
22651 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i100000 --mls512 --bsr16 --lazy --ohh July 4, 2016 @ 11:51
22652 bytes -2 bytes zopfli --i1000 --mls2048 --bsr40 --lazy --ohh June 29, 2016 @ 15:25
22654 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls2048 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh June 29, 2016 @ 15:24
22655 bytes – zopfli --i100 --mls2048 --bsr25 --lazy --ohh June 29, 2016 @ 13:47

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 @ 12:49.

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 or 100,000.
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 22658 22658 22658 22657 22657 22666 22657 22657 22661 22661 22669 22670 22670 22669 22668
4 22681 22682 22682 22682 22683 22663 22663 22662 22655 22655 22668 22668 22668 22668 22668
6 22654 22654 22655 22654 22654 22655 22654 22653 22653 22655 22653 22668 22669 22669 22669
7 22657 22659 22655 22655 22656 22654 22653 22654 22651 22653 22670 22667 22667 22669 22669
8 22654 22653 22654 22655 22653 22655 22654 22653 22656 22653 22669 22670 22669 22669 22669
9 22659 22660 22655 22654 22662 22665 22661 22653 22654 22655 22653 22667 22669 22668 22669
10 22658 22654 22660 22655 22660 22662 22660 22660 22654 22657 22659 22671 22669 22669 22668
11 22656 22658 22653 22654 22654 22662 22661 22660 22654 22653 22670 22670 22669 22668 22668
12 22653 22671 22661 22661 22654 22664 22653 22654 22654 22653 22670 22669 22667 22668 22669
13 22653 22653 22662 22654 22654 22655 22654 22653 22655 22657 22659 22668 22668 22668 22667
14 22659 22653 22654 22654 22656 22653 22653 22653 22654 22657 22655 22667 22669 22668 22673
15 22654 22655 22653 22655 22652 22655 22658 22655 22658 22653 22660 22668 22669 22669 22669
16 22658 22658 22660 22655 22661 22662 22660 22660 22651 22654 22656 22668 22668 22669 22668
17 22659 22653 22653 22654 22656 22656 22653 22654 22653 22652 22670 22669 22668 22668 22667
18 22659 22654 22653 22654 22654 22656 22654 22655 22654 22657 22670 22667 22668 22669 22669
19 22659 22657 22662 22654 22655 22655 22654 22654 22655 22653 22655 22668 22669 22669 22669
20 22667 22662 22661 22662 22660 22661 22661 22654 22654 22653 22654 22668 22669 22669 22669
21 22656 22656 22661 22661 22655 22655 22653 22654 22653 22653 22653 22669 22669 22668 22672
22 22657 22653 22654 22653 22658 22657 22653 22653 22654 22654 22670 22667 22669 22669 22669
23 22656 22654 22654 22655 22654 22654 22653 22654 22653 22653 22670 22667 22669 22668 22669
25 22658 22656 22663 22661 22656 22662 22653 22654 22653 22654 22653 22667 22669 22668 22669
30 22658 22659 22661 22654 22658 22657 22653 22653 22658 22655 22653 22670 22669 22669 22669
40 22659 22655 22654 22654 22652 22654 22654 22654 22657 22654 22652 22669 22669 22669 22669

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 22655 bytes – 100%
1,000 22652 bytes -3 bytes 100%
10,000 22652 bytes – 100%
100,000 22651 bytes -1 byte 1.74%
1,000,000 – – –
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) 22676 bytes +25 bytes (+0.11%) +1 byte
1 22689 bytes +38 bytes (+0.17%) +14 bytes
2 22675 bytes +24 bytes (+0.11%) –
3 22719 bytes +68 bytes (+0.30%) +44 bytes
4 22749 bytes +98 bytes (+0.43%) +74 bytes
5 22780 bytes +129 bytes (+0.57%) +105 bytes
6 22813 bytes +162 bytes (+0.72%) +138 bytes
7 22839 bytes +188 bytes (+0.83%) +164 bytes
8 22845 bytes +194 bytes (+0.86%) +170 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
ZPAQ (Wikipedia) zpaq zpaq -method 69 18317 bytes -4334 bytes (-19.13%)
RAR (proprietary) RAR rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1 19323 bytes -3328 bytes (-14.69%)
PPMd (Wikipedia) 7zip 7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd 20276 bytes -2375 bytes (-10.49%)
Brotli (Wikipedia) brotli brotli -q 11 21370 bytes -1281 bytes (-5.66%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia) xz xz -9 22112 bytes -539 bytes (-2.38%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia) bzip2 bzip2 -9 22317 bytes -334 bytes (-1.47%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia) zstd zstd -19 22444 bytes -207 bytes (-0.91%)

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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