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What_Lies_Bene1
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May 12, 2014

You really won't notice a difference. I've been using 6 for years on high volume sites with no issues.

 

A few other notes from me;

 

  • Deflate (based on zlib) is preferable to gzip as gzip uses the deflate algorithm anyway but is generally slower due to its use of larger headers and trailers and a slower integrity check (aka checksum) compared to zlib used alone

     

  • Set the Chunking setting in the HTTP Profile to selective as this only rechunks data if the response payload has been modified (which should only happen if compression has taken place) and if the server response was itself chunked. Responses that the server did not chunk will have the value of their Content Length HTTP header rewritten accordingly.

     

  • I use these content types;

     

    application/(xml|x-javascript)

     

    text/

     

    image/svg+xml

     

    application/x-www-form-urlencoded

     

    application/http

     

    application/pdf Most people say don't but I find there's still a benefit

     

    application/json

     

    application/msword

     

    application/vnd.ms-excel

     

    application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

     

    application/vnd.ms-project

     

    application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument

     

    application/x-shockwave-flash