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Both minification and compression are great ways to reduce file size. The minification process works on all the website codes, like HTML, CSS, JS, XML, etc. This only removes the irrelevant spaces and comments. But compression will happen on the image and files. It created a new file (like gzip or brotli) with fewer bits.
Minification does not affect the working of your code. But in compression, you need to decode the file first before using it.