Compressing your sites

Do ya? Don’t ya?

[richardb]

After looking at ways to beat the competition, ensure even the most highly strung web professional, with nano seconds to spare for a site to load… …stays. We started to look into compressing web sites.

The following is a link to a software company producing compression software (surprise, surprise), however, I quite liked the proof is in the pudding approach…

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Seems like they left off WW, not sure why;)

So, do ya? If so, what do you use? Your opinions would be appreciated.

Rich

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 2:16 pm (utc) on Nov. 10, 2003]

[jpjones]

Yep, we do here :)

I've made it personal policy to ensure each server I manage has compression capabilities installed, be it for asp, php, or just plain ol' html.

mod_gzip is my tool of choice with Apache. It *definately* makes a difference. Not so much for broadband users as it does for those visitors still on dial-up. However, when you've got a large web page, you'll notice the difference even on broadband. As for saving on the bandwidth cost, that's pretty much a no-brainer.

JP

[lorax]

I don't as of yet but that's primarily because I haven't had the time to evaluate the process, pros/cons. On the face it seems like a good thing to do albeit I'd have to remember not to download and overwrite anything local.

[sun818]

I'm on a shared host so I don't know about the server side technologies. But I do compress all my HTML before I upload them to the web site using a free HTML compressor.

[proxyHunter]

sun818, do u have a link for this html compressor tool?

also is there any good info link to find out more on this?

cheers

[sun818]

absolute html compressor (ahc) - its free

these are the parameters I use in my batch files:
-b- -q- -s- -t- -c -l -w -y

The AHC documentation will go into more detail.