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How much improvement can you see with compression? The difference in measured download times on a very lightly loaded server indicates that the time to download the Base Page (the initial HTML file) improved by between 1.3 and 1.6 seconds across a very slow connection when compression was used.
Base Page Performance
There is a slightly slower [...]
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- Tags: apache, caching, compress, compressing, compression, deflate, gzip, HTML, LAN, Linux, loaded server, PHP, SCSI, Web server, Web server administrators
Compressing PHP Output
3 Oct 2006A little-used or discussed feature of PHP is the ability to compress output from the scripts using GZIP for more efficient transfer to requesting clients. By automatically detecting the ability of the requesting clients to accept and interpret GZIP encoded HTML, PHP4 can decrease the size of files transferred to the client by 60% to [...]
More on Technorati Performance Woes
In: GrabPERF
11 Jul 2005Ok, one of the tests that the GrabPERF System is running is doing a simple search on the Technorati site.
Ouch.
Now, as I mentioned before, Technorati has some interesting things going on in their www servers. For the Web geeks out there, here is what their headers look like.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:15:47 [...]
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HTTP Compression and Web 2.0
In: GrabPERF
11 Jul 2005HTTP Compression is a well-acknowledged way to improve Web performance and decrease bandwidth usage by compressing text content before transmitting it to the client. This has become an increasingly interesting topic for Web 2.0 sites starting to experience their first growth pains.
COMPANY
COMPRESSION
Technorati
NO
Flickr
NO
Wikipedia
YES
Blogger
YES
Feedster
NO
Bloglines
YES
Gizmodo
YES
TypePad
YES
Weblogs INC
NO
Scripting News
NO
Memeorandum
NO
The sample above is far from representative. However, I would have thought [...]
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Compressing Web Output Using mod_gzip for Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x
In: smp
30 Apr 2005Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]
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