Choose a version:
37% The original file has 20505 bytes (20.0k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 7543 bytes (7.4k, 37%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:
Boot
  2769 bytes (2.7k)
CDN
gzip -6 (default)
  2506 bytes (2.4k)
local copy
gzip -9
  2502 bytes (2.4k)
local copy
Baidu
  2499 bytes (2.4k)
CDN
cdnjs
  2489 bytes (2.4k)
CDN
libdeflate -12
  2431 bytes (2.4k)
local copy
zultra
  2429 bytes (2.4k)
local copy
pigz -11 -n
  2428 bytes (2.4k)
local copy
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip
  2427 bytes (2.4k)
local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b0
  2427 bytes (2.4k)
local copy
Zopfli
  2424 bytes (2.4k)
local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/underscorejs/underscore-0.5.0.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest UnderscoreJS 0.5.0 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 65 bytes by using my UnderscoreJS 0.5.0 Zopfli version instead of the best available CDN (2.68% smaller than cdnjs, 2424 vs. 2489 bytes):
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 --mls4 --bsr13 --lazy --ohh

(found March 3, 2020)
Description Value Parameter
iterations 1000000  --i1000000
maximum blocks 8  --mb8
maximum length score 4  --mls4
block splitting recursion 13  --bsr13
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/jashkenas/underscore/0.5.0/underscore-min.js --location | md5sum
86684210e3c8fe28bd38c2b828943850  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/underscorejs/underscore-0.5.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
86684210e3c8fe28bd38c2b828943850  -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jashkenas/underscore/0.5.0/underscore-min.js --location | sha1sum
4691dc14277aa9fe00da2b1c2ad7dd3c5bee3287  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/underscorejs/underscore-0.5.0.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
4691dc14277aa9fe00da2b1c2ad7dd3c5bee3287  -

These CDNs send you the original file:
CDN Size (compressed) MD5 (uncompressed) Timestamp
Boot 2769 bytes 86684210e3c8fe28bd38c2b828943850 (invalid)
cdnjs 2489 bytes 86684210e3c8fe28bd38c2b828943850 (invalid)

And some CDNs send you a different file:
CDN Size (compressed) MD5 (uncompressed) Comment / Diff Timestamp
Baidu 2499 bytes 0671eef5038cfcc9846bd6a1fdb3dfcc only whitespaces differ (invalid)

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

Other Versions

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

1.13.6, 1.13.5, 1.13.4, 1.13.3, 1.13.2, 1.13.1, 1.13.0,
1.12.1, 1.12.0,
1.11.0,
1.10.2, 1.10.1, 1.10.0,
1.9.2, 1.9.1, 1.9.0,
1.8.3, 1.8.2, 1.8.1,
1.7.0,
1.6.0,
1.5.2, 1.5.0,
1.4.4, 1.4.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.0,
1.3.3, 1.3.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.0,
1.2.4, 1.2.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.0,
1.1.7, 1.1.5, 1.1.4, 1.1.3, 1.1.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.0,
1.0.4, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0,
0.6.0,
0.5.7, 0.5.6, 0.5.5, 0.5.4, 0.5.3, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5.0,
0.4.7, 0.4.6, 0.4.5, 0.4.4, 0.4.3, 0.4.2, 0.4.1, 0.4.0,
0.3.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.1, 0.3.0,
0.2.0,
0.1.1, 0.1.0

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 Vue.

Changelog

Best Zopfli parameters so far:
Size Improvement Parameters Found
2424 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000000 --mls4 --bsr13 --lazy --ohh March 3, 2020 @ 15:22
2425 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls4 --bsr13 --lazy --ohh February 2, 2016 @ 20:57
2426 bytes zopfli --i100 --mls4 --bsr13 --lazy --ohh February 2, 2016 @ 20:57

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 @ 12:50.

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
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bsr \ mls
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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 2426 bytes 100%
1,000 2425 bytes -1 byte 100%
10,000 2425 bytes 100%
100,000 2425 bytes 100%
1,000,000 2424 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
2427 bytes +3 bytes (+0.12%)
2427 bytes +3 bytes (+0.12%)
2457 bytes +33 bytes (+1.36%) +30 bytes
2490 bytes +66 bytes (+2.72%) +63 bytes
2514 bytes +90 bytes (+3.71%) +87 bytes
2537 bytes +113 bytes (+4.66%) +110 bytes
2566 bytes +142 bytes (+5.86%) +139 bytes
2590 bytes +166 bytes (+6.85%) +163 bytes
2616 bytes +192 bytes (+7.92%) +189 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
RAR (proprietary) RAR rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1 2181 bytes -243 bytes (-10.02%)
Brotli (Wikipedia) brotli brotli -q 11 2229 bytes -195 bytes (-8.04%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia) zstd zstd -19 2440 bytes +16 bytes (+0.66%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia) bzip2 bzip2 -9 2486 bytes +62 bytes (+2.56%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia) xz xz -9 2520 bytes +96 bytes (+3.96%)
PPMd (Wikipedia) 7zip 7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd 2625 bytes +201 bytes (+8.29%)
ZPAQ (Wikipedia) zpaq zpaq -method 69 3085 bytes +661 bytes (+27.27%)

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):


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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all timestamps are displayed in central european time. see my changelog.
no flash, not even images or external css files - and everything squeezed into a single html file.
which was handsomely compressed before releasing it into the wild internet - obviously.

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