Is this worth doing if I already use gzip?

Marginally. Compression handles repeated whitespace very well, so the saving after gzip or Brotli is usually a few per cent rather than the number the byte counter suggests. Measure the compressed size.

JSON Minifier

Strip insignificant whitespace and report the byte savings.

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About this tool

Strips every byte that does not affect meaning. JSON is the one format where minification carries no risk at all: whitespace between tokens is meaningless, so the output parses to exactly the same value as the input.

Limitations

Minifying JSON only removes whitespace. It is not compression — gzip will do far more.

Questions

Is this worth doing if I already use gzip?: Marginally. Compression handles repeated whitespace very well, so the saving after gzip or Brotli is usually a few per cent rather than the number the byte counter suggests. Measure the compressed size.

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