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HTTP compression should be disabled by default, 99% of web content downloaded is already compressed.
by ryacko 8y ago
HTTP compression should be disabled by default, 99% of web content downloaded is already compressed.
- algorithmsRcool 8y agoBut this is flatly untrue. Images and video sure, but everything from html, just, css, svg isn't compressed. In fact compression is critical to modern SPA frameworks to keep initial download times lower. Also this post has little to do with http compression. ZSTD is used it many other circumstances.
- deathanatos 8y agoAnd for resources that don't compress well, web servers like nginx (and I presume others) support listing what mimetypes to compress, so they won't double-compress those things.