Comments on: [How-To] gZip Your Website Content and Improve Performance

By: Sandeep Kumar

Sandeep Kumar — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:05:22 +0000

Hi..
both tools showing different results.
why?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:37:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing useful info. Really nice idea to reduce and save the bandwidth of user.

By: Juzar

Juzar — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:45:01 +0000

Hey dude, This is good info.
However, just want to share why I chose mod_deflate over mod_gzip :
1) mod_deflate is faster than mod_gzip since gzip compresses more (slightly). So on every request the webserver has to do that much processing extra.
2) You need to download and build and install mod_gzip where as mod_deflate.so comes with the standard apache installation.
That’s all.

By: yabate

yabate — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:25:08 +0000

Thanks for useful information.

Now my data savings are
Original Size: 88.65 KB
Gzipped Size: 16.32 KB
Data Savings: 81.59%

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:36:49 +0000

Hey Kunal you forgot to mention that we can even do a gzip-encoding using .htaccess also. So that people who have theire sites hosted on servers can use it:

# Compress some text file types

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/xml application/x-javascript

# Deactivate compression for buggy browsers

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

By: Manan

Manan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:06:27 +0000

Oh this is a cool tip! had heard about gzip but never bothered to check what it is. Will check it out.

By: Sathya

Sathya — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:52:15 +0000

Hey I was reading on this couple of weeks ago thought I’ll implement this on my blog but forgot to do! Thanks!