turk182 - 12:50 am on Dec 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

I found that sometimes the simplest option is the correct one. I refused to use html compressors for some time, but one month ago I finally installed one and I think is the best idea I've ever had related to my web site. Our bandwidth usage has been reduced to a 40% (15% if we only considered text pages) and surfing within our site with a 56K modem is a gratifying experience: is fast even when you load a 150KB page like our forum (with the compression it's reduced to about 20KB).

One last thing: the cpu load related to the compression is imperceptible.

[...] compresses the data (using the GZip compression format) right before it leaves the server. The data is then transfered to the client in its compressed form. The client then decompresses it. Most recent browsers handle this by default and for the ones that don't, XCompress will seamlessly downgrade to a non-compressed data transmission mode

If someone wants to know the software company please send me a sticky mail, although I think most SEO's and webmasters already know the software I'm talking about.