Vue 2.1.3 - as small as it gets (near-perfect GZIP compression)

Choose a version:

The original file has 211089 bytes (206.1k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 69227 bytes (67.6k, 33%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:

Boot	29009 bytes (28.3k)	CDN
cdnjs	25494 bytes (24.9k)	CDN
unpkg	25330 bytes (24.7k)	CDN
gzip -6 (default)	25327 bytes (24.7k)	local copy
gzip -9	25313 bytes (24.7k)	local copy
jsdelivr	25292 bytes (24.7k)	CDN
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip	24506 bytes (23.9k)	local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b0	24491 bytes (23.9k)	local copy
libdeflate -12	24482 bytes (23.9k)	local copy
pigz -11 -n	24477 bytes (23.9k)	local copy
zultra	24456 bytes (23.9k)	local copy
Zopfli	24402 bytes (23.8k)	local copy
Zopfli (defluff)	24400 bytes (23.8k)	local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-2.1.3.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest Vue 2.1.3 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 890 bytes by using my Vue 2.1.3 Zopfli version instead of the best available CDN (3.65% smaller than jsdelivr, 24402 vs. 25292 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 --mls512 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh

(found April 4, 2017)

Description	Value	Parameter
iterations	100000	--i100000
maximum blocks	8	--mb8
maximum length score	512	--mls512
block splitting recursion	8	--bsr8
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 2 more bytes (24400 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-2.1.3.min.js --location | md5sum
cd5724369f8007fba15959b70fc84ebd -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-2.1.3.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
cd5724369f8007fba15959b70fc84ebd -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vuejs/vue/vue-2.1.3.min.js --location | sha1sum
2c30a88d610838fba16a3af8a391523f340e2179 -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-2.1.3.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
2c30a88d610838fba16a3af8a391523f340e2179 -

All listed CDNs deliver identical contents:

CDN	Size (compressed)	MD5 (uncompressed)	Timestamp
Boot	29009 bytes	cd5724369f8007fba15959b70fc84ebd	(invalid)
cdnjs	25494 bytes	cd5724369f8007fba15959b70fc84ebd	(invalid)
unpkg	25330 bytes	cd5724369f8007fba15959b70fc84ebd	April 4, 2017 @ 10:09
jsdelivr	25292 bytes	cd5724369f8007fba15959b70fc84ebd	(invalid)

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
24402 bytes	-2 bytes	zopfli --i100000 --mls512 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh	April 4, 2017 @ 11:48
24404 bytes	-4 bytes	zopfli --i10000 --mls512 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh	April 4, 2017 @ 11:17
24408 bytes	-5 bytes	zopfli --i1000 --mls512 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh	April 4, 2017 @ 10:39
24413 bytes	–	zopfli --i100 --mls512 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh	April 4, 2017 @ 10:24

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	24460	24460	24460	24452	24454	24450	24440	24459	24443	24459	24461	24462	24458	24459	24455
4	24438	24445	24441	24437	24441	24451	24446	24446	24446	24458	24444	24457	24462	24453	24453
6	24445	24447	24454	24452	24412	24450	24449	24447	24412	24460	24461	24458	24460	24453	24453
7	24444	24446	24434	24447	24430	24432	24440	24440	24446	24460	24452	24457	24457	24447	24453
8	24409	24409	24409	24412	24413	24441	24452	24457	24402	24406	24460	24458	24434	24454	24446
9	24439	24423	24438	24439	24429	24428	24432	24441	24440	24459	24441	24438	24442	24448	24453
10	24434	24438	24438	24438	24429	24427	24429	24441	24439	24454	24439	24440	24433	24453	24453
11	24435	24432	24437	24437	24437	24422	24437	24442	24409	24438	24439	24438	24450	24443	24459
12	24437	24437	24442	24441	24438	24417	24437	24441	24406	24460	24436	24438	24458	24454	24455
13	24425	24423	24427	24423	24440	24430	24437	24439	24437	24459	24440	24439	24439	24440	24454
14	24433	24421	24422	24420	24425	24425	24438	24439	24446	24438	24441	24438	24441	24446	24454
15	24435	24431	24435	24428	24437	24426	24437	24445	24441	24460	24454	24462	24443	24441	24454
16	24428	24442	24430	24439	24428	24414	24446	24440	24407	24460	24460	24458	24441	24450	24454
17	24428	24431	24438	24424	24405	24430	24419	24447	24438	24460	24460	24459	24432	24447	24453
18	24432	24439	24435	24405	24415	24423	24440	24441	24441	24460	24460	24459	24441	24448	24452
19	24440	24425	24440	24423	24423	24423	24433	24406	24440	24403	24454	24443	24442	24453	24455
20	24441	24438	24425	24422	24433	24443	24444	24441	24440	24460	24437	24439	24440	24447	24455
21	24433	24439	24438	24432	24438	24427	24441	24442	24440	24456	24441	24459	24438	24454	24454
22	24430	24434	24434	24439	24438	24428	24442	24440	24405	24454	24441	24459	24443	24448	24453
23	24433	24430	24435	24424	24439	24423	24434	24408	24441	24460	24441	24439	24444	24455	24453
25	24433	24430	24436	24441	24441	24420	24438	24440	24406	24438	24441	24439	24439	24435	24454
30	24434	24424	24439	24440	24438	24430	24439	24440	24407	24460	24441	24457	24439	24453	24452
40	24432	24440	24443	24421	24429	24422	24436	24440	24442	24459	24438	24441	24440	24448	24451

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	24413 bytes	–	100%
1,000	24408 bytes	-5 bytes	100%
10,000	24404 bytes	-4 bytes	100%
100,000	24402 bytes	-2 bytes	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)	24491 bytes	+89 bytes (+0.36%)	–
1	24493 bytes	+91 bytes (+0.37%)	+2 bytes
2	24508 bytes	+106 bytes (+0.43%)	+17 bytes
3	24505 bytes	+103 bytes (+0.42%)	+14 bytes
4	24503 bytes	+101 bytes (+0.41%)	+12 bytes
5	24524 bytes	+122 bytes (+0.50%)	+33 bytes
6	24558 bytes	+156 bytes (+0.64%)	+67 bytes
7	24589 bytes	+187 bytes (+0.77%)	+98 bytes
8	24609 bytes	+207 bytes (+0.85%)	+118 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	20600 bytes	-3802 bytes (-15.58%)
RAR (proprietary)	RAR	rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1	20993 bytes	-3409 bytes (-13.97%)
PPMd (Wikipedia)	7zip	7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd	21057 bytes	-3345 bytes (-13.71%)
Brotli (Wikipedia)	brotli	brotli -q 11	22822 bytes	-1580 bytes (-6.47%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia)	bzip2	bzip2 -9	23550 bytes	-852 bytes (-3.49%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia)	xz	xz -9	23564 bytes	-838 bytes (-3.43%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia)	zstd	zstd -19	24113 bytes	-289 bytes (-1.18%)

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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