Why Minify JavaScript?

Minifying JavaScript is great from SEO, as it reduces file size by removing unnecessary characters like comments, newlines, and whitespace. It can help you to have:

• Faster page load times
• Reduced bandwidth usage
• Improved SEO performance

Minification of assets can play a crucial role in the optimization of your website's performance, especially in a competitive SEO landscape where every millisecond counts.

And this specially true if you have lots of javascript functionality embedded in your website, and even more so if you are using the traditional HTML approach, as newer frameworks like React do not have that problem.

SEO Benefits of Minification

It is sometimes argued that minification has only marginal benefits in terms of search engine optimization, but often times, if you have chosen your niche right, that is all you need.

In low competition niches, with rather long term keywords, you can get the SEO boost you need with a a little advantage over your competition, which could come from a faster loading site.

How to Use This Tool?

Enter the URL of your JavaScript file or paste the code directly into the textarea. Then, you need to click the "Minify JS" button to process the code. After processing, the tool will then display the minified version of your JavaScript.

The minified code obtained should be saved into a file with the same name as the original name, except that you append the ".min" to it.

For example, if your original file is called "function.js", then you would name this one "function.min.js".

Always keep a copy of the original js file, because that is the one you want to maintain, so you need to edit, and you do so and then you minimize again the newly edited js code. And in your HTML code you link always to the minimized one.