Benchmark: minify/concat javascript load times when injecting content scripts via Chrome extension

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Overview:

Does minifying/concating JS files make a difference if you're loading files via a chrome extension - since it loads js files from disk and not over network?

Legend:

  load = loading files from disk (not network since via extension)
  execute = time from injecting <script> tags to when all variables are loaded and functions are executing
  ready = all JS/HTML/CSS are finished loading aka jquery document.ready

Injecting 10x files into gmail.com:

  total size: 260kb
  load: 30-35 ms
  executes: 430-1090 ms
  ready: ~10238 ms = 10 seconds

Injecting 1x concatenated file into gmail.com:

  total size: 180kb
  load: 2-3 ms
  execute: 367-908 ms
  ready: ~8200 ms = 8.2 seconds

While percentage-wise it seems significant, it wont make a big difference in terms of UX since the times are in ms and the difference is <1s.

Note: 'ready' includes all of Gmail js/css/html assets which takes a LONG time to load and the numbers varied wildly. So that is less significant than the load/execute counts.