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ECO-CMP-JS-013 — Uncompressed static assets

  • Category: Computation (CMP)
  • Family: JavaScript (JS)
  • Layer: Network
  • Tier: 2
  • Severity: warning
  • Tags: javascript, assets, compression
  • Legacy ID: ECO-JS-013

Summary

Serving assets without compression increases bandwidth and energy use.

Rationale

Compression is one of the simplest bandwidth reductions.

Impact

{
  "confidence": 0.8,
  "notes": "Big win for text assets.",
  "type": "network"
}

Detection

{
  "languages": [
    "javascript"
  ],
  "method": "trace"
}

Remediation

{
  "guidance": "Enable gzip/brotli; ensure proper caching.",
  "tradeoffs": "Server/CDN config changes."
}

Ontology

{
  "system_layers": [
    "network"
  ]
}