Definition of "minification" []

• The reduction in apparent size of objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens (noun)
• The removal of white space and unnecessary characters from a web page in order to reduce its size and improve download time (noun)

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• "Next, we added "minification" to the Javascipt and CSS which reduced the corresponding filesizes by 80% and 33% respectively."
• "It utilizes multiple techniques to improve performance, including: object and query caching; page caching; HTML, CSS, and javascript minification; gzip compression; CDN Content Distribution Network support; and browser caching via ETags."
• "* Added options for toggling inline CSS and JS minification to improve minify reliability"