Ask Yoast: why and how minify JS and CSS

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[Music] the following question we actually have a lot the question is how and why should I Minify my Js and CSS files so JavaScript is the stuff that makes your web page interactive and CSS is is stuff that makes your web page look good and these two things are well basically it's code that you Senter the browser that the browser needs to render a a browser is like any other computer program doesn't care about what the language that it gets into it uh looks like it doesn't need the spacing and uh comments and all the other stuff that your developer needs to make sense of all that because he needs the structure to get through it the browser has no benefit from that stripping all of that down means that if you and that's what you do when you Minify it you remove all the extra spaces you remove all the and the line braks and all the comments stripping all that down actually makes the file that you sent to the user a lot smaller it can save up to 30 40 even 50% in some cases and there's no added B benefit to actually sending that stuff to the end user so it saves time and money for everyone that's why you should do it good luck [Music]