Code minification removes unnecessary characters, such as programmer comments and whitespace, from code files. Smaller files load faster and require less bandwidth to transmit. section 5.1.2
A compact representation
Instead of storing five blank lines, a minification process can store three characters such as “5bl,” describing the blank lines without retaining every character. section 5.1.2
WP Rocket provides code minification alongside caching and file concatenation. Concatenation combines multiple code files to reduce the browser’s individual requests, while minification makes the files themselves smaller. section 5.1.2
