React 16.2.0 - as small as it gets (near-perfect GZIP compression)

Choose a version:

The original file has 54742 bytes (53.5k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 6617 bytes (6.5k, 12%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:

Boot	3007 bytes (2.9k)	CDN
gzip -6 (default)	2839 bytes (2.8k)	local copy
gzip -9	2839 bytes (2.8k)	local copy
cdnjs	2821 bytes (2.8k)	CDN
jsdelivr	2819 bytes (2.8k)	CDN
libdeflate -12	2787 bytes (2.7k)	local copy
zultra	2787 bytes (2.7k)	local copy
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip	2786 bytes (2.7k)	local copy
pigz -11 -n	2786 bytes (2.7k)	local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b1	2784 bytes (2.7k)	local copy
Zopfli	2783 bytes (2.7k)	local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/react/react-16.2.0.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest React 16.2.0 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 36 bytes by using my React 16.2.0 Zopfli version instead of the best available CDN (1.29% smaller than jsdelivr, 2783 vs. 2819 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 --mls16 --bsr7 --lazy --ohh

(found November 29, 2017)

Description	Value	Parameter
iterations	1000000	--i1000000
maximum blocks	8	--mb8
maximum length score	16	--mls16
block splitting recursion	7	--bsr7
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://fb.me/react-16.2.0.min.js --location | md5sum
bca103da5b5404d93783ccf73e0e9d1e -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/react/react-16.2.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
bca103da5b5404d93783ccf73e0e9d1e -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://fb.me/react-16.2.0.min.js --location | sha1sum
643981b507e851701b0f8ef861a97a5442cde571 -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/react/react-16.2.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
643981b507e851701b0f8ef861a97a5442cde571 -

All listed CDNs deliver identical contents:

CDN	Size (compressed)	MD5 (uncompressed)	Timestamp
Boot	3007 bytes	bca103da5b5404d93783ccf73e0e9d1e	December 5, 2017 @ 09:38
cdnjs	2821 bytes	bca103da5b5404d93783ccf73e0e9d1e	November 28, 2017 @ 23:03
jsdelivr	2819 bytes	bca103da5b5404d93783ccf73e0e9d1e	November 29, 2017 @ 15:38

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

Other Versions

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

18.2.0,
18.1.0, 18.0.0,
17.0.2, 17.0.1, 17.0.0,
16.14.0,
16.13.1, 16.13.0,
16.12.0,
16.11.0,
16.10.2, 16.10.1, 16.10.0,
16.9.0,
16.8.6, 16.8.5, 16.8.4, 16.8.3, 16.8.2, 16.8.1, 16.8.0,
16.7.0,
16.6.3, 16.6.1, 16.6.0,
16.5.2, 16.5.1, 16.5.0,
16.4.2, 16.4.1, 16.4.0,
16.3.2, 16.3.1, 16.3.0,
16.2.0,
16.1.1, 16.1.0, 16.0.0,
15.6.2, 15.6.1, 15.6.0,
15.5.2, 15.5.1, 15.5.0,
15.4.2, 15.4.1, 15.4.0,
15.3.2, 15.3.1, 15.3.0,
15.2.1, 15.2.0,
15.1.0,
15.0.2, 15.0.1, 15.0.0,
0.14.8, 0.14.7, 0.14.6, 0.14.5, 0.14.4, 0.14.3, 0.14.2, 0.14.1, 0.14.0,
0.13.3, 0.13.2, 0.13.1, 0.13.0,
0.12.2, 0.12.1, 0.12.0,
0.11.2, 0.11.1, 0.11.0,
0.10.0

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, Socket.IO, ThreeJS, UnderscoreJS and Vue.

Changelog

Best Zopfli parameters so far:

Size	Improvement	Parameters	Found
2783 bytes	-1 byte	zopfli --i1000000 --mls16 --bsr7 --lazy --ohh	November 29, 2017 @ 16:19
2784 bytes	–	zopfli --i100 --mls32 --bsr15 --lazy --ohh	November 29, 2017 @ 15:40

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 @ 12:54.

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:
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	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
4	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
6	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
7	2784	2784	2784	2783	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
8	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
9	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
10	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
11	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
12	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
13	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
14	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
15	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
16	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
17	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
18	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
19	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
20	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
21	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
22	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
23	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
25	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
30	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784
40	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784	2784

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	2784 bytes	–	100%
1,000	2784 bytes	–	100%
10,000	2784 bytes	–	100%
100,000	2784 bytes	–	100%
1,000,000	2783 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)	2784 bytes	+1 byte (+0.04%)	–
1	2784 bytes	+1 byte (+0.04%)	–
2	2795 bytes	+12 bytes (+0.43%)	+11 bytes
3	2821 bytes	+38 bytes (+1.37%)	+37 bytes
4	2863 bytes	+80 bytes (+2.87%)	+79 bytes
5	2894 bytes	+111 bytes (+3.99%)	+110 bytes
6	2934 bytes	+151 bytes (+5.43%)	+150 bytes
7	2961 bytes	+178 bytes (+6.40%)	+177 bytes
8	2998 bytes	+215 bytes (+7.73%)	+214 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 - but your browser doesn't support it.

Algorithm	Program	Parameters	Size	Compared To Best Zopfli
Brotli (Wikipedia)	brotli	brotli -q 11	2492 bytes	-291 bytes (-10.46%)
RAR (proprietary)	RAR	rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1	2626 bytes	-157 bytes (-5.64%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia)	zstd	zstd -19	2807 bytes	+24 bytes (+0.86%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia)	xz	xz -9	2860 bytes	+77 bytes (+2.77%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia)	bzip2	bzip2 -9	2951 bytes	+168 bytes (+6.04%)
PPMd (Wikipedia)	7zip	7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd	3009 bytes	+226 bytes (+8.12%)
ZPAQ (Wikipedia)	zpaq	zpaq -method 69	3516 bytes	+733 bytes (+26.34%)

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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