Final minified file size of analytics.min.js is larger than 100KB?

[jsilveira]

Rebuilding analytics-integrations with only two plugins (google analytics and kissmetrics) analytics.min.js is still a little bit over 100KB. Is that correct? Am I missing a way to reduce its size? If not, isn't that huge for a performance sensitive website?

[ianstormtaylor]

Haven't tried the build with those specific two, but gzipped it's probably ~20k, which shouldn't mean much of anything if you're loading it async. And if you're using the hosted version we automatically strip out the unnecessary integrations for you and load async so you never have to worry about that stuff.

There's also an aliasing fix related to this component builder thread that will remove the need for the verbose require aliases in the built file, and get size down even more as soon as it makes it into core.

[reinpk]

@yields about 25% of the characters in the compiled analytics.min.js are require.alias() calls, is there an easy way to trim that down by any chance?

[calvinfo]

@reinpk, this is something we're waiting on component builder for at the moment. If you use component, you can also take advantage of shared components by packaging analytics.js with your entire build, so there's no wasted space!