Vue 1.0.16 - as small as it gets (near-perfect GZIP compression)

Choose a version:

The original file has 257028 bytes (251.0k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 73099 bytes (71.4k, 28%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:

Boot	29374 bytes (28.7k)	CDN
cdnjs	25381 bytes (24.8k)	CDN
gzip -6 (default)	25207 bytes (24.6k)	local copy
jsdelivr	25135 bytes (24.5k)	CDN
unpkg	25135 bytes (24.5k)	CDN
gzip -9	25113 bytes (24.5k)	local copy
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip	24292 bytes (23.7k)	local copy
libdeflate -12	24280 bytes (23.7k)	local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b4	24233 bytes (23.7k)	local copy
pigz -11 -n	24224 bytes (23.7k)	local copy
zultra	24212 bytes (23.6k)	local copy
Zopfli	24182 bytes (23.6k)	local copy
Zopfli (defluff)	24181 bytes (23.6k)	local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-1.0.16.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest Vue 1.0.16 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 953 bytes by using my Vue 1.0.16 Zopfli version instead of the best available CDN (3.94% smaller than unpkg, 24182 vs. 25135 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 --i100000 --mb8 --mls16 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh

(found April 10, 2017)

Description	Value	Parameter
iterations	100000	--i100000
maximum blocks	8	--mb8
maximum length score	16	--mls16
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

Even Smaller Files Thanks To Defluff

Zopfli's output can be further optimized by the defluff tool.
In this particular case, defluff saves 1 more byte (24181 bytes).

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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-1.0.16.min.js --location | md5sum
6c464958656a7126c26c8d8e9365bb80 -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-1.0.16.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
6c464958656a7126c26c8d8e9365bb80 -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vuejs/vue/vue-1.0.16.min.js --location | sha1sum
deb12869e4371cb93aae7f66629498e2c3caa25c -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-1.0.16.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
deb12869e4371cb93aae7f66629498e2c3caa25c -

All listed CDNs deliver identical contents:

CDN	Size (compressed)	MD5 (uncompressed)	Timestamp
Boot	29374 bytes	6c464958656a7126c26c8d8e9365bb80	(invalid)
cdnjs	25381 bytes	6c464958656a7126c26c8d8e9365bb80	(invalid)
jsdelivr	25135 bytes	6c464958656a7126c26c8d8e9365bb80	(invalid)
unpkg	25135 bytes	6c464958656a7126c26c8d8e9365bb80	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
24182 bytes	-1 byte	zopfli --i100000 --mls16 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh	April 10, 2017 @ 14:27
24183 bytes	-2 bytes	zopfli --i10000 --mls16 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh	April 7, 2017 @ 05:56
24185 bytes	-3 bytes	zopfli --i10000 --mls2048 --bsr30 --lazy --ohh	April 7, 2017 @ 05:28
24188 bytes	-7 bytes	zopfli --i1000 --mls8192 --bsr20 --lazy --ohh	April 6, 2017 @ 19:08
24195 bytes	-3 bytes	zopfli --i1000 --mls8192 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh	April 6, 2017 @ 18:56
24198 bytes	–	zopfli --i100 --mls2048 --bsr30 --lazy --ohh	April 6, 2017 @ 18:27

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 @ 12:51.

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	24207	24207	24203	24189	24206	24205	24206	24204	24201	24200	24202	24193	24191	24205	24203
4	24201	24202	24207	24202	24204	24200	24202	24201	24201	24202	24202	24200	24203	24212	24208
6	24206	24206	24202	24201	24203	24203	24203	24202	24200	24203	24201	24204	24200	24208	24210
7	24209	24203	24201	24203	24201	24202	24201	24199	24200	24199	24202	24199	24210	24203	24205
8	24203	24203	24202	24201	24202	24201	24202	24202	24202	24199	24203	24201	24193	24202	24212
9	24206	24202	24202	24182	24201	24201	24200	24203	24202	24203	24202	24204	24202	24203	24210
10	24202	24202	24203	24203	24203	24202	24202	24201	24202	24203	24202	24201	24200	24209	24199
11	24208	24202	24202	24201	24201	24200	24184	24199	24202	24203	24202	24199	24199	24205	24211
12	24202	24202	24201	24201	24203	24202	24203	24201	24200	24199	24202	24201	24201	24205	24211
13	24207	24202	24201	24200	24201	24200	24202	24201	24202	24203	24202	24204	24202	24201	24213
14	24207	24202	24207	24201	24201	24202	24202	24202	24202	24203	24202	24204	24200	24207	24209
15	24206	24202	24202	24200	24201	24201	24202	24202	24202	24203	24202	24200	24199	24209	24205
16	24206	24202	24199	24201	24201	24203	24202	24200	24203	24203	24202	24200	24204	24207	24210
17	24201	24201	24201	24201	24202	24201	24201	24201	24202	24203	24202	24202	24190	24203	24210
18	24208	24208	24202	24201	24201	24201	24202	24202	24203	24203	24203	24200	24199	24207	24211
19	24202	24202	24202	24201	24201	24203	24201	24201	24202	24203	24203	24200	24200	24204	24210
20	24206	24202	24202	24201	24201	24204	24202	24202	24202	24197	24202	24202	24184	24211	24212
21	24206	24202	24200	24202	24201	24201	24202	24201	24202	24203	24189	24200	24199	24203	24212
22	24208	24202	24202	24201	24201	24201	24201	24202	24202	24203	24203	24200	24199	24207	24210
23	24207	24202	24201	24201	24202	24201	24201	24202	24202	24203	24202	24203	24196	24204	24212
25	24206	24202	24201	24201	24201	24203	24201	24202	24202	24199	24203	24200	24198	24207	24212
30	24200	24202	24202	24201	24201	24201	24202	24201	24202	24203	24183	24200	24200	24206	24211
40	24202	24202	24201	24199	24200	24201	24202	24201	24202	24202	24202	24201	24198	24206	24212

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	24198 bytes	–	100%
1,000	24188 bytes	-10 bytes	100%
10,000	24183 bytes	-5 bytes	100%
100,000	24182 bytes	-1 byte	2.61%
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)	24255 bytes	+73 bytes (+0.30%)	+22 bytes
1	24257 bytes	+75 bytes (+0.31%)	+24 bytes
2	24257 bytes	+75 bytes (+0.31%)	+24 bytes
3	24254 bytes	+72 bytes (+0.30%)	+21 bytes
4	24233 bytes	+51 bytes (+0.21%)	–
5	24267 bytes	+85 bytes (+0.35%)	+34 bytes
6	24299 bytes	+117 bytes (+0.48%)	+66 bytes
7	24331 bytes	+149 bytes (+0.62%)	+98 bytes
8	24364 bytes	+182 bytes (+0.75%)	+131 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	20047 bytes	-4135 bytes (-17.10%)
RAR (proprietary)	RAR	rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1	20389 bytes	-3793 bytes (-15.69%)
PPMd (Wikipedia)	7zip	7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd	21192 bytes	-2990 bytes (-12.36%)
Brotli (Wikipedia)	brotli	brotli -q 11	22651 bytes	-1531 bytes (-6.33%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia)	bzip2	bzip2 -9	22896 bytes	-1286 bytes (-5.32%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia)	xz	xz -9	23412 bytes	-770 bytes (-3.18%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia)	zstd	zstd -19	23920 bytes	-262 bytes (-1.08%)

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):

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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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