I don't know about "under 4096 bytes" but I have heard of not compressing data that is under ~1500 bytes. Part of the thinking is this - if your result data (pl

I don't know about "under 4096 bytes" but I have heard of not compressing data that is under ~1500 bytes. Part of the thinking is this - if your result data (plus HTTP overhead) is already smaller than the data payload of an IP packet (MTU settings come into play here), then you are spending CPU time that will not save you any network I/O time.