Choose a version:
52% The original file has 156380 bytes (152.7k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 81950 bytes (80.0k, 52%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:
Boot
  25651 bytes (25.0k)
 CDN
cdnjs
  21452 bytes (20.9k)
 CDN
gzip -6 (default)
  21258 bytes (20.8k)
 local copy
gzip -9
  21182 bytes (20.7k)
 local copy
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip
  20427 bytes (19.9k)
 local copy
libdeflate -12
  20419 bytes (19.9k)
 local copy
zultra
  20405 bytes (19.9k)
 local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b2
  20373 bytes (19.9k)
 local copy
pigz -11 -n
  20368 bytes (19.9k)
 local copy
Zopfli
  20349 bytes (19.9k)
 local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/socketio/socket.io-1.1.0.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest Socket.IO 1.1.0 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

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 --mls128 --bsr23 --lazy --ohh

(found June 30, 2016)
Description Value Parameter
iterations 100000  --i100000
maximum blocks 8  --mb8
maximum length score 128  --mls128
block splitting recursion 23  --bsr23
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/1.1.0/socket.io.min.js --location | md5sum
0cdf61402e8ecc6a190b9fb4019dc90b  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/socket.io/socket.io-1.1.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
0cdf61402e8ecc6a190b9fb4019dc90b  -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/socketio/socket.io-client/1.1.0/socket.io.min.js --location | sha1sum
832d9eae89fbfc968bf5c34449ec6907ec91be0e  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/socket.io/socket.io-1.1.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
832d9eae89fbfc968bf5c34449ec6907ec91be0e  -

All listed CDNs deliver identical contents:
CDN Size (compressed) MD5 (uncompressed) Timestamp
Boot 25651 bytes 0cdf61402e8ecc6a190b9fb4019dc90b (invalid)
cdnjs 21452 bytes 0cdf61402e8ecc6a190b9fb4019dc90b (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
20349 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i100000 --mls128 --bsr23 --lazy --ohh June 30, 2016 @ 13:36
20350 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls64 --bsr15 --lazy --ohh June 29, 2016 @ 18:48
20351 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls16 --bsr18 --lazy --ohh June 29, 2016 @ 15:23
20352 bytes -2 bytes zopfli --i1000 --mls128 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh June 29, 2016 @ 15:23
20354 bytes – zopfli --i100 --mls16 --bsr16 --lazy --ohh June 29, 2016 @ 12:20

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 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 20361 20352 20365 20365 20354 20365 20351 20349 20355 20353 20368 20355 20355 20367 20370
4 20358 20361 20358 20362 20356 20357 20356 20357 20354 20376 20357 20361 20370 20367 20372
6 20358 20358 20357 20357 20360 20357 20362 20360 20360 20356 20372 20369 20358 20370 20370
7 20360 20361 20357 20351 20357 20358 20355 20361 20353 20356 20371 20354 20371 20367 20367
8 20360 20352 20357 20357 20356 20357 20351 20352 20356 20354 20372 20355 20352 20367 20352
9 20360 20350 20351 20351 20351 20355 20351 20351 20355 20356 20372 20351 20354 20367 20367
10 20357 20357 20357 20350 20361 20352 20352 20356 20349 20356 20371 20352 20354 20369 20371
11 20358 20357 20357 20360 20357 20358 20353 20358 20361 20355 20357 20355 20357 20367 20375
12 20357 20357 20357 20359 20361 20359 20361 20359 20361 20357 20357 20357 20357 20367 20352
13 20351 20352 20357 20352 20360 20358 20365 20360 20374 20376 20372 20357 20356 20367 20371
14 20355 20353 20357 20355 20361 20359 20355 20359 20361 20354 20358 20351 20357 20367 20352
15 20357 20357 20357 20352 20357 20349 20361 20355 20355 20357 20371 20358 20352 20367 20352
16 20358 20358 20357 20349 20362 20361 20357 20359 20353 20383 20374 20352 20351 20367 20371
17 20357 20358 20357 20361 20357 20355 20362 20351 20351 20354 20371 20355 20353 20367 20370
18 20355 20352 20355 20351 20355 20355 20354 20356 20354 20356 20371 20352 20357 20367 20353
19 20357 20357 20356 20351 20356 20354 20362 20361 20354 20356 20371 20355 20353 20367 20372
20 20358 20352 20357 20357 20357 20361 20361 20361 20356 20356 20373 20352 20360 20368 20351
21 20357 20357 20358 20360 20361 20360 20352 20358 20356 20355 20371 20354 20353 20367 20352
22 20355 20355 20356 20351 20356 20354 20361 20359 20349 20357 20371 20352 20355 20367 20370
23 20357 20356 20357 20352 20360 20354 20349 20359 20354 20356 20371 20355 20352 20367 20352
25 20357 20357 20357 20359 20355 20354 20359 20355 20362 20356 20371 20355 20352 20369 20352
30 20354 20354 20355 20358 20354 20355 20352 20355 20354 20356 20349 20352 20352 20369 20352
40 20357 20359 20357 20351 20351 20362 20351 20356 20351 20351 20351 20351 20351 20366 20354

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 20354 bytes – 100%
1,000 20350 bytes -4 bytes 100%
10,000 20350 bytes – 100%
100,000 20349 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) 20373 bytes +24 bytes (+0.12%) –
1 20396 bytes +47 bytes (+0.23%) +23 bytes
2 20373 bytes +24 bytes (+0.12%) –
3 20416 bytes +67 bytes (+0.33%) +43 bytes
4 20449 bytes +100 bytes (+0.49%) +76 bytes
5 20474 bytes +125 bytes (+0.61%) +101 bytes
6 20519 bytes +170 bytes (+0.84%) +146 bytes
7 20521 bytes +172 bytes (+0.85%) +148 bytes
8 20552 bytes +203 bytes (+1.00%) +179 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 16605 bytes -3744 bytes (-18.40%)
RAR (proprietary) RAR rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1 17350 bytes -2999 bytes (-14.74%)
PPMd (Wikipedia) 7zip 7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd 18059 bytes -2290 bytes (-11.25%)
Brotli (Wikipedia) brotli brotli -q 11 19247 bytes -1102 bytes (-5.42%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia) xz xz -9 19936 bytes -413 bytes (-2.03%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia) bzip2 bzip2 -9 19980 bytes -369 bytes (-1.81%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia) zstd zstd -19 20222 bytes -127 bytes (-0.62%)

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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