Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. I hesitated when recommending gzip compression when speeding up your javascript because of problems in older browsers.
the system works, but it’s not that efficient. 100KB is a lot of text, and frankly, HTML is redundant. Every ,
and tag has a closing tag that’s almost the same. Words are repeated throughout the document. Any way you slice it,
HTML (and its beefy cousin,
XML) is not lean. And what’s the plan when a file’s too big? Zip it!
If we could send a .zip file to the browser (index.html.zip) instead of plain old index.html, we’d save on bandwidth and download time. The browser could download the zipped file, extract it, and then show it to user, who’s in a good mood because the page loaded quickly
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