Vue 0.9.0 - as small as it gets (near-perfect GZIP compression)

Choose a version:

The original file has 106617 bytes (104.1k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 37304 bytes (36.4k, 35%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:

Boot	14951 bytes (14.6k)	CDN
cdnjs	12918 bytes (12.6k)	CDN
gzip -6 (default)	12854 bytes (12.6k)	local copy
gzip -9	12837 bytes (12.5k)	local copy
unpkg	12831 bytes (12.5k)	CDN
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip	12398 bytes (12.1k)	local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b2	12390 bytes (12.1k)	local copy
libdeflate -12	12382 bytes (12.1k)	local copy
zultra	12382 bytes (12.1k)	local copy
pigz -11 -n	12377 bytes (12.1k)	local copy
Zopfli	12357 bytes (12.1k)	local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-0.9.0.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest Vue 0.9.0 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 474 bytes by using my Vue 0.9.0 Zopfli version instead of the best available CDN (3.84% smaller than unpkg, 12357 vs. 12831 bytes):

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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 --mls8192 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh

(found March 9, 2020)

Description	Value	Parameter
iterations	1000000	--i1000000
maximum blocks	8	--mb8
maximum length score	8192	--mls8192
block splitting recursion	9	--bsr9
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/vuejs/vue/vue-0.9.0.min.js --location | md5sum
699dcb46c9de59ea2a0c674c31e77334 -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-0.9.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
699dcb46c9de59ea2a0c674c31e77334 -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vuejs/vue/vue-0.9.0.min.js --location | sha1sum
7d519457577fae19e3fd1138e9e4a156e512a942 -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-0.9.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
7d519457577fae19e3fd1138e9e4a156e512a942 -

All listed CDNs deliver identical contents:

CDN	Size (compressed)	MD5 (uncompressed)	Timestamp
Boot	14951 bytes	699dcb46c9de59ea2a0c674c31e77334	(invalid)
cdnjs	12918 bytes	699dcb46c9de59ea2a0c674c31e77334	(invalid)
unpkg	12831 bytes	699dcb46c9de59ea2a0c674c31e77334	April 6, 2017 @ 17:25

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

Other Versions

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

2.6.14, 2.6.13, 2.6.12, 2.6.11, 2.6.10, 2.6.9, 2.6.8, 2.6.7, 2.6.6, 2.6.5, 2.6.4, 2.6.3, 2.6.2, 2.6.1, 2.6.0, 2.5.22, 2.5.21, 2.5.20, 2.5.19, 2.5.18, 2.5.17, 2.5.16, 2.5.15, 2.5.14, 2.5.13, 2.5.12, 2.5.11, 2.5.10, 2.5.9, 2.5.8, 2.5.7, 2.5.6, 2.5.5, 2.5.4, 2.5.3, 2.5.2, 2.5.1, 2.5.0, 2.4.4, 2.4.3, 2.4.2, 2.4.1, 2.4.0, 2.3.4, 2.3.3, 2.3.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.0, 2.2.6, 2.2.5, 2.2.4, 2.2.3, 2.2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.0, 2.1.10, 2.1.9, 2.1.8, 2.1.7, 2.1.6, 2.1.5, 2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1.0, 2.0.8, 2.0.7, 2.0.6, 2.0.5, 2.0.4, 2.0.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 2.0.0,
1.0.28, 1.0.27, 1.0.26, 1.0.25, 1.0.24, 1.0.23, 1.0.22, 1.0.21, 1.0.20, 1.0.19, 1.0.18, 1.0.17, 1.0.16, 1.0.15, 1.0.14, 1.0.13, 1.0.12, 1.0.11, 1.0.10, 1.0.9,
0.10.6, 0.10.5, 0.10.4, 0.10.3, 0.10.2, 0.10.1, 0.10.0,
0.9.3, 0.9.2, 0.9.1, 0.9.0

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, Socket.IO, ThreeJS and UnderscoreJS.

Changelog

Best Zopfli parameters so far:

Size	Improvement	Parameters	Found
12357 bytes	-1 byte	zopfli --i1000000 --mls8192 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh	March 9, 2020 @ 16:22
12358 bytes	-2 bytes	zopfli --i100000 --mls8192 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh	April 10, 2017 @ 16:03
12360 bytes	-1 byte	zopfli --i10000 --mls8192 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh	April 7, 2017 @ 04:39
12361 bytes	-2 bytes	zopfli --i1000 --mls128 --bsr10 --lazy --ohh	April 6, 2017 @ 18:58
12363 bytes	-1 byte	zopfli --i1000 --mls8 --bsr10 --lazy --ohh	April 6, 2017 @ 18:57
12364 bytes	–	zopfli --i100 --mls128 --bsr16 --lazy --ohh	April 6, 2017 @ 17:47

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 @ 12:55.

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	12376	12377	12372	12366	12365	12364	12364	12363	12366	12366	12368	12367	12366	12363	12364
4	12363	12370	12364	12374	12365	12367	12363	12364	12362	12368	12368	12367	12365	12370	12367
6	12375	12375	12375	12371	12363	12364	12362	12364	12362	12364	12367	12368	12363	12363	12366
7	12368	12370	12372	12376	12367	12364	12363	12363	12363	12367	12367	12368	12367	12363	12365
8	12376	12380	12373	12361	12365	12363	12364	12363	12365	12367	12368	12367	12361	12363	12366
9	12374	12375	12373	12371	12363	12363	12362	12363	12363	12365	12367	12367	12357	12363	12366
10	12381	12373	12362	12373	12365	12363	12361	12363	12367	12366	12367	12367	12367	12367	12366
11	12371	12373	12376	12373	12372	12363	12361	12363	12363	12362	12367	12368	12368	12363	12366
12	12371	12369	12374	12371	12365	12364	12362	12363	12362	12367	12367	12367	12367	12368	12366
13	12370	12369	12367	12371	12360	12363	12359	12363	12363	12369	12364	12367	12359	12365	12364
14	12380	12380	12361	12374	12365	12363	12362	12363	12362	12367	12367	12368	12363	12363	12364
15	12369	12369	12372	12373	12373	12363	12363	12363	12370	12367	12367	12368	12362	12363	12366
16	12375	12379	12363	12374	12377	12364	12361	12363	12362	12367	12367	12368	12364	12362	12366
17	12366	12375	12381	12372	12365	12363	12362	12363	12367	12367	12367	12362	12364	12363	12365
18	12376	12369	12380	12373	12376	12364	12361	12366	12362	12370	12367	12367	12367	12363	12359
19	12379	12378	12380	12381	12362	12364	12363	12363	12371	12367	12367	12369	12365	12367	12366
20	12375	12374	12377	12361	12362	12364	12362	12363	12363	12367	12367	12368	12364	12363	12364
21	12373	12369	12372	12368	12372	12363	12361	12363	12363	12369	12367	12367	12363	12362	12362
22	12377	12377	12375	12362	12362	12363	12360	12363	12363	12365	12367	12368	12363	12362	12364
23	12376	12375	12367	12375	12373	12364	12362	12364	12362	12367	12367	12367	12363	12363	12363
25	12375	12380	12367	12371	12362	12364	12362	12363	12362	12367	12367	12368	12364	12363	12366
30	12373	12373	12362	12372	12362	12363	12362	12363	12362	12367	12367	12368	12364	12366	12363
40	12373	12367	12362	12370	12362	12364	12362	12364	12362	12366	12368	12368	12364	12365	12366

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	12364 bytes	–	100%
1,000	12361 bytes	-3 bytes	100%
10,000	12360 bytes	-1 byte	100%
100,000	12358 bytes	-2 bytes	3.77%
1,000,000	12357 bytes	-1 byte	0.29%
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)	12407 bytes	+50 bytes (+0.40%)	+17 bytes
1	12405 bytes	+48 bytes (+0.39%)	+15 bytes
2	12390 bytes	+33 bytes (+0.27%)	–
3	12400 bytes	+43 bytes (+0.35%)	+10 bytes
4	12431 bytes	+74 bytes (+0.60%)	+41 bytes
5	12423 bytes	+66 bytes (+0.53%)	+33 bytes
6	12450 bytes	+93 bytes (+0.75%)	+60 bytes
7	12489 bytes	+132 bytes (+1.07%)	+99 bytes
8	12527 bytes	+170 bytes (+1.38%)	+137 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	10571 bytes	-1786 bytes (-14.45%)
ZPAQ (Wikipedia)	zpaq	zpaq -method 69	10963 bytes	-1394 bytes (-11.28%)
PPMd (Wikipedia)	7zip	7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd	11103 bytes	-1254 bytes (-10.15%)
Brotli (Wikipedia)	brotli	brotli -q 11	11626 bytes	-731 bytes (-5.92%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia)	bzip2	bzip2 -9	11892 bytes	-465 bytes (-3.76%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia)	xz	xz -9	12304 bytes	-53 bytes (-0.43%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia)	zstd	zstd -19	12408 bytes	+51 bytes (+0.41%)

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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