9 best JavaScript Compression libraries in 2025
by naveen.kumar@openweaver.com Updated: Jan 3, 2023
Guide Kit
JavaScript is the most widely used scripting language on Earth. And even though it has so many advanced features and methods, the language itself is quite big, therefore it slows down your website. By compressing JavaScript files you can reduce the loading time of your webpage by up to 70%. Minification is the process of removing all unnecessary characters from source code without changing its functionality. These unnecessary characters usually include white space characters, new line characters, comments, and sometimes block delimiters, which are used to add readability to the code but are not required for it to execute. Some of the popular JavaScript compression libraries are: Compressors - Image Compressor, Decompress - Extracting archives made easy, Fastify-compress - Adds compression utils to the Fastify reply object and a hook to decompress requests payloads. The following is a list of the most popular libraries.
js-framework-benchmarkby krausest
A comparison of the performance of a few popular javascript frameworks
js-framework-benchmarkby krausest
JavaScript
5611
Version:chrome114
License: Permissive (Apache-2.0)
compressorjsby fengyuanchen
JavaScript image compressor.
compressorjsby fengyuanchen
JavaScript
4417
Version:v1.2.1
License: Permissive (MIT)
compressionby expressjs
Node.js compression middleware
compressionby expressjs
JavaScript
2645
Version:1.7.4
License: Permissive (MIT)
compression-webpack-pluginby webpack-contrib
Prepare compressed versions of assets to serve them with Content-Encoding
compression-webpack-pluginby webpack-contrib
JavaScript
1369
Version:v10.0.0
License: Permissive (MIT)
compressed-size-actionby preactjs
GitHub Action that adds compressed size changes to your PRs.
compressed-size-actionby preactjs
JavaScript
502
Version:2.5.0
License: Permissive (MIT)
grunt-contrib-compressby gruntjs
Compress files and folders.
grunt-contrib-compressby gruntjs
JavaScript
349
Version:v1.5.0
License: Permissive (MIT)
decompressby kevva
Extracting archives made easy
decompressby kevva
JavaScript
370
Version:v4.2.1
License: Permissive (MIT)
compressingby node-modules
Everything you need for compressing and uncompressing
compressingby node-modules
JavaScript
377
Version:v1.7.0
License: Permissive (MIT)
fastify-compressby fastify
Fastify compression utils
fastify-compressby fastify
JavaScript
159
Version:v6.2.0
License: Permissive (MIT)