Is it worth the effort to try to reduce JSON size?

Question

I am submitting relatively lots of data from a mobile application (up to 1000 JSON objects), that I would normally encode like this:

[{
    id: 12,
    score         


        

Answer 1

Although is an old question, I'd like to put some words.

In my experience, large differences in json raw size, amount very little after compression. I prefer to keep it human readable.

In real case numbers: a json file of 1,29MB, and the optimized version of 145KB, when compressed, where of 32KB and 9KB.

Except in extreme conditions, I think this kind of differences are negligibles and the cost in readability is huge.

A:

{
  "Code": "FCEB97B6",
  "Date": "\/Date(1437706800000)\/",
  "TotalQuantity": 1,
  "Items": [
    {
      "CapsulesQuantity": 0,
      "Quantity": 1,
      "CurrentItem": {
        "ItemId": "SHIELD_AXA",
        "Order": 30,
        "GroupId": "G_MODS",
        "TypeId": "T_SHIELDS",
        "Level": 0,
        "Rarity": "R4",
        "UniqueId": null,
        "Name": "AXA Shield"
      }
    }
  ],
  "FormattedDate": "2015-Jul.-24"
}

B:

{
  "fDate": "2016-Mar.-01",
  "totCaps": 9,
  "totIts": 14,
  "rDays": 1,
  "avg": "1,56",
  "cells": {
    "00": {
      "30": 1
    },
    "03": {
      "30": 1
    },
    "08": {
      "25": 1
    },
    "09": {
      "26": 3
    },
    "12": {
      "39": 1
    },
    "14": {
      "33": 1
    },
    "17": {
      "40": 3
    },
    "19": {
      "41": 2
    },
    "20": {
      "41": 1
    }
  }
}

This are fragments of the two files.