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> For example, measurements of Flywheel’s workload show that 42% of HTML bytes on the web that would benefit from compression are uncompressed, > despite GZip
by grrowl 11y ago
> For example, measurements of Flywheel’s workload show that 42% of
HTML bytes on the web that would benefit from compression are uncompressed,
> despite GZip being universally supported in modern web browsers [13]. This is in part because GZip is not enabled by default on most web servers,
> yet only a single-line change to the server configuration is needed.
So really, it's a gzipping proxy written in Go. Hopefully they extend the protocol to better compression in future.
- mdwelsh 11y agoThe proxy does much more than just gzip; this paragraph refers to only the impact of gzip on the Web (which was surprising to us given how widespread we assumed it would be).