How to organize minification and packaging of css and js files to speed up website?

Question

I am doing speed optimization for my website application. And I found some practises to do that. For example Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo. Among t

Answer 1

I've found Minify most useful for my PHP projects. Very easy to use, just saves time configuring minimization, compression and caching of CSS and JS files manually. Also has a neat grouping feature.

Some notes about YUI Compressor

1. YUI Compressor generates without line breaks at all while Minify has some.
2. Be careful if you have escaped strings. I've found out that YUI Compressor unescapes them. So strings like "\'" become "'".