#Instruction how to execute Low-tides

Introduction

Low-tides is an automation of YSlow recommendation #1 (Reduce Http Request) and #10 (Minimize JS/CSS). The tool accepts html path and extracts js/css includes for merging and minification.

Some of the reasons why we developed this tool are as follows:

# Improve page loads by reducing http request and minimizing js size. # Perform step #1 with minimal action for the developer and yet maintain proper version.

Low-tides processes html files and looks for js and css includes. It then combines multiple js in sequence into 1 js file and perform minification. Based on our own test, load time has improved by at least 30% after using low-tides. This tool is an extension of YUI Compressor.

Details

To use Low-tides:

Usage: java -jar low-tide.jar

<options>

Global Options

-h, --help Displays this information

--charset

<charset>

Read the input file using

<charset>

--line-break

<column>

Insert a line break after the specified column number

-v, --verbose Display informational messages and warnings

-o

<file>

Place the output into

<file>

. Defaults to stdout.

JavaScript Options

--nomunge Minify only, do not obfuscate

--preserve-semi Preserve all semicolons

--disable-optimizations Disable all micro optimizations