I am wondering why not all websites enabling this great feature GZIP?
Understanding the impact of compression on server resources and application performance While doing some research on a related topic, I ran across this question and thought “that deserves an ...
Published May 27, 2009
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If most of the content is static, I see no reason why there would be increased computation required for every request. It's far simpler to compress the content once, cache the result, and then serve that cached version for subsequent requests. Then you get the benefit of reduced bandwidth requirements without the extra CPU load.