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Going beyond gzipping Velocity 2009
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Let's review: Importance of gzipping Save bandwidth: ~70% reduction in transfer size Faster load time: ~50% improvement for DSL ~60% improvement for dialup
(Averages based on testing Alexa's top 10 websites in IE7)
Thanks. I did that 8 years ago, can I go now?
So what's the issue? Roughly 15% of users get uncompressed responses! Doesn't include bots. Too high to be due to old browsers: Netscape