In this paper, we introduce two minimization problems on non-scattering solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equation. One gives us a sharp scattering criterion, the other is concerned with minimal size of blowup profiles. We first reformulate several previous results in terms of these two minimizations. Then, the main result of the paper is existence of minimizers to the both minimization problems for mass-subcritical nonlinear Schrödinger equations. To consider the latter minimization, we consider the equation in a Fourier transform of generalized Morrey space. It turns out that the minimizer to the latter problem possesses a compactness property, which is so-called almost periodicity modulo symmetry.As in E 1 , a similar infimum value for negative time direction has the same value under the assumption (1.3). Intuitively, E 2 is a minimum size of possible "blowup profiles." 1 1 It is known that, in some cases, a solution that does not scatter for positive time direction tends to an orbit of a static profile, a blowup profile, by a group action, say G, as time approaches to the end of maximal time interval (e.g., a standing wave solution u(t, x) = e itω φω(x)). If a size function ℓ is chosen so that it is invariant under the group action G, then the size of such a solution tends to that of a corresponding profile. Of course, another kind of behavior may take place, in general, and so it may not be a definition of E2.