Scott mentioned that people should enable Http compression for their blogs, so I thought I would give it a shot, but first I wanted to do a little experiment to see what kind of difference it makes. So, I turned on Bytes Sent on my logs and recorded a days worth of data… then I went and turned on IIS compression following the .NET Guy’s excellent instructions, here are the results.
5,718 hits with no compression used 146.77MB, for an average of 26KB a request.
4,704 hits with compression used 67.42MB, for an average of 15KB a request.
Not bad at all. Thanks Scott!
-James
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Just imagine the savings you could see with compression if you limited the text you used to, say, 10 unique characters.
What about browser compatibility, folks?
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