Choose a version:
31% The original file has 264975 bytes (258.8k) and is available from the project website.
There you can find the official minified version, too, which brings down the size to 81826 bytes (79.9k, 31%).

After GZIP compression these minified files vary in size:
Boot
  34081 bytes (33.3k)
CDN
cdnjs
  29913 bytes (29.2k)
CDN
gzip -6 (default)
  29718 bytes (29.0k)
local copy
unpkg
  29700 bytes (29.0k)
CDN
gzip -9
  29687 bytes (29.0k)
local copy
libdeflate -12
  28755 bytes (28.1k)
local copy
7zip -mx=9 -tgzip
  28737 bytes (28.1k)
local copy
kzip -s0 -rn -b1
  28722 bytes (28.0k)
local copy
zultra
  28719 bytes (28.0k)
local copy
pigz -11 -n
  28689 bytes (28.0k)
local copy
Zopfli
  28645 bytes (28.0k)
local copy

perma-link to the smallest file on my server:
http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-2.4.2.min.js (or via HTTPS)

You will automatically get the smallest Vue 2.4.2 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 1055 bytes by using my Vue 2.4.2 Zopfli version instead of the best available CDN (3.68% smaller than unpkg, 28645 vs. 29700 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 --mls8192 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh

(found July 25, 2017)
Description Value Parameter
iterations 1000000  --i1000000
maximum blocks 8  --mb8
maximum length score 8192  --mls8192
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

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-2.4.2.min.js --location | md5sum
b0473a59bd7e655c4da3d26f50dbba1e  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-2.4.2.min.zopfli.js.gz | md5sum
b0473a59bd7e655c4da3d26f50dbba1e  -

SHA1:
curl --silent --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vuejs/vue/vue-2.4.2.min.js --location | sha1sum
1753ce899ac64e40e4688a6878e6a52d979488ef  -
curl --silent --compressed https://minime.stephan-brumme.com/files/vue/vue-2.4.2.min.zopfli.js.gz | sha1sum
1753ce899ac64e40e4688a6878e6a52d979488ef  -

All listed CDNs deliver identical contents:
CDN Size (compressed) MD5 (uncompressed) Timestamp
Boot 34081 bytes b0473a59bd7e655c4da3d26f50dbba1e (invalid)
cdnjs 29913 bytes b0473a59bd7e655c4da3d26f50dbba1e (invalid)
unpkg 29700 bytes b0473a59bd7e655c4da3d26f50dbba1e July 25, 2017 @ 07:25

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
28645 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000000 --mls8192 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 13:09
28646 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i100000 --mls8192 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 08:55
28647 bytes -4 bytes zopfli --i10000 --mls8192 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 07:49
28651 bytes -3 bytes zopfli --i1000 --mls8192 --bsr19 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 07:31
28654 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls8192 --bsr9 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 07:30
28655 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls32768 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 07:30
28656 bytes -1 byte zopfli --i1000 --mls128 --bsr11 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 07:30
28657 bytes zopfli --i100 --mls32768 --bsr8 --lazy --ohh July 25, 2017 @ 07:26

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, 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
28689 28680 28689 28680 28680 28677 28680 28680 28678 28653 28672 28654 28656 28670 28662
28679 28678 28680 28679 28680 28680 28677 28677 28675 28659 28658 28666 28667 28671 28661
28655 28663 28658 28665 28658 28657 28671 28655 28668 28654 28654 28667 28652 28668 28657
28672 28671 28671 28675 28679 28655 28653 28655 28667 28656 28652 28667 28652 28671 28657
28672 28672 28673 28675 28672 28655 28672 28674 28653 28653 28656 28669 28645 28658 28654
28676 28672 28673 28673 28675 28658 28655 28655 28666 28668 28657 28667 28648 28664 28655
28671 28670 28672 28660 28656 28656 28657 28655 28660 28669 28654 28666 28651 28663 28654
28672 28675 28674 28674 28672 28655 28654 28660 28659 28657 28655 28667 28667 28659 28655
28671 28671 28672 28675 28676 28655 28653 28655 28653 28654 28652 28667 28651 28658 28653
28672 28670 28672 28659 28659 28654 28655 28660 28653 28657 28652 28667 28652 28658 28658
28671 28670 28671 28670 28657 28655 28656 28654 28654 28656 28655 28667 28651 28666 28655
28670 28670 28671 28675 28671 28654 28656 28655 28655 28657 28653 28667 28667 28658 28652
28673 28671 28675 28674 28657 28662 28655 28659 28657 28668 28653 28667 28651 28658 28654
28673 28673 28672 28672 28672 28654 28654 28651 28654 28656 28655 28667 28653 28658 28653
28672 28672 28671 28673 28656 28655 28656 28652 28656 28656 28655 28667 28652 28659 28652
28671 28670 28672 28675 28676 28670 28670 28653 28657 28654 28652 28667 28645 28657 28654
28673 28672 28672 28674 28670 28654 28653 28674 28668 28678 28652 28667 28666 28655 28658
28672 28674 28672 28662 28656 28657 28657 28676 28653 28655 28652 28667 28651 28657 28659
28671 28674 28671 28675 28671 28655 28653 28660 28655 28657 28657 28667 28652 28666 28653
28672 28671 28660 28660 28663 28655 28654 28654 28656 28657 28654 28667 28652 28658 28659
28672 28669 28672 28672 28670 28657 28672 28675 28668 28657 28652 28667 28652 28661 28655
28671 28670 28671 28672 28671 28670 28671 28674 28654 28654 28651 28667 28652 28661 28655
28671 28670 28673 28675 28671 28657 28670 28655 28668 28657 28652 28667 28652 28657 28654

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 28657 bytes 100%
1,000 28651 bytes -6 bytes 100%
10,000 28647 bytes -4 bytes 100%
100,000 28646 bytes -1 byte 0.87%
1,000,000 28645 bytes -1 byte 0.58%
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
28722 bytes +77 bytes (+0.27%)
28722 bytes +77 bytes (+0.27%)
28740 bytes +95 bytes (+0.33%) +18 bytes
28729 bytes +84 bytes (+0.29%) +7 bytes
28734 bytes +89 bytes (+0.31%) +12 bytes
28750 bytes +105 bytes (+0.37%) +28 bytes
28785 bytes +140 bytes (+0.49%) +63 bytes
28818 bytes +173 bytes (+0.60%) +96 bytes
28821 bytes +176 bytes (+0.61%) +99 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
ZPAQ (Wikipedia) zpaq zpaq -method 69 23668 bytes -4977 bytes (-17.37%)
RAR (proprietary) RAR rar a -m5 -md64m -mc63:128t -mt1 24283 bytes -4362 bytes (-15.23%)
PPMd (Wikipedia) 7zip 7za a -mx=9 -m0=ppmd 25242 bytes -3403 bytes (-11.88%)
Brotli (Wikipedia) brotli brotli -q 11 26653 bytes -1992 bytes (-6.95%)
Burrows-Wheeler transform (Wikipedia) bzip2 bzip2 -9 27207 bytes -1438 bytes (-5.02%)
LZMA2 (Wikipedia) xz xz -9 27356 bytes -1289 bytes (-4.50%)
Zstandard (Wikipedia) zstd zstd -19 28092 bytes -553 bytes (-1.93%)

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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