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Speed Up Your Website With HTTP Compression

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

What would you say if I told you that a very simple trick can save up to 75% of your bandwidth, visibly make your website load up to four times faster and make your visitors more satisfied? The data on the web is forecasted to grow exponentially over the next few years. In addition, even today the number one complaint among web users is lack of speed. The answer to this challenge is HTTP compression.

HTTP Compression?

The basic idea is to compress data being sent out from the server and have the browser decompress this data on the fly, thus reducing the amount of data sent and increasing the page display speed. The data is being compressed dynamically on the fly so you don’t need to upload any pre-compressed files. (more…)