Thread: Gzip or Not?
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Old 12-21-2001, 06:17 PM  
axxxis
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From my experience, it does absolutely nothing for jpeg or gif's but does good on html and txt. If you have a site that is 90% html/txt then its worth it. If its anything less than 50% html/txt its not worth it. (by 50% i mean 50% of size).
Remember that mod_gzip uses CPU to compress so it can hurt your overall performance. if its all HTML/TXT though, you will end up using less resources just because each connection will end faster (And the surfer will load faster too if they are on a modem since they have to download less) In most cases for adult sites it's not worth it though....

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