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You left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
by ojbyrne 18y ago
You left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
- alex_c 18y agoYep, I remembered about compression after I posted. So did you have anything to do with this hidden message? :p
- ojbyrne 18y agoI knew about it, not much more than that. Timeless, our dba, put it in (digg user philovivero).
- maximilian 18y agoHow does that work? Is the page sent gzipped and my computer un-gzips it? (and what specifically does that..do browsers do that?)
- ojbyrne 18y agoYep. The browser sends an "Accept-Encoding" header as part of its request (with a list of what it supports). And the server can respond back with one of the encodings listed. Most modern browser support compression I believe.
- maximilian 18y agoThats pretty kickin. If I made websites for a living I would look into that further.
- bkbleikamp 18y agoMost people who work on large scale websites know about it :)
- kirubakaran 18y agogzipping saves bandwidth at the cost of cpu cycles. So it may or may not be a good idea, depending on what you are trying to save.
- mseebach 18y ago58667 digg-orig.html 14585 digg-orig.html.gz 58560 digg-noegg.html 14524 digg-noegg.html.gz 61 bytes.