On GZIP'ing Your Website...

[Vin DSL]

Some ppl seem to think, "GZIP compression doesn't work with Nuke. Why even try?"

Read and heed the results for my site, using the Desilva test:





85% reduction! "How about the forums? Certainly compression won't work with phpBB!"





83% reduction! "But.. but... I run Coppermine. Pictures are already compressed, right?"





87% reduction! "But.. but... but... huh?"


Leknor Test:




PhiliWeb Test:




PipeBoost Test:





May I suggest you go check your site for GZIP compression? :wink:

Here are some links where you can test it...

http://www.desilva.biz/gzip-test.php

http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php

http://www.philiweb.com/accueil.php?...e/testgzip.php

http://www.pipeboost.com/report.asp

To the naysayers amongst us:

Go check my site ( www.lenon.com ) using these widely accepted and highly recommended 'industry standard' GZIP compression checkers before posting here. That might change your mind[s] on this topic in advance. 8)

[Galen]

I had GZip enabled on phpBB once upon a time. The response time of the forum slowed to a crawl. Saving space isn't worth the extra few seconds to load a page in which a user might say "f*** this, I'm going somewhere else." Well, imho, anyway.

[Ron]

I'm not sure that the pictures have been further compressed, notice it says html/text only...

BTW, I've uused gzip since the beginning on my phpbb forum, and with 30,000 forum pages a month being read, I'm using about 500MB bandwidth. That's an an average of only about 16K/page. If the compression figures are correct then I'm saving maybe 2GB per month in bandwidth. (I'm allowing for some pix) Any of these compression analysis tools look at the whole generated page and not just the text?

[richardevanslee]

Similar online tests showed my pages being compressed by about 70%. Looking at my bandwidth logs it works out more like 40% - 50%.

[lloyd_borrett]

G'day,

My main personal site has mostly static pages built with MS FrontPage. It also has phpBB forums, so my understanding is that I could turn on compression for those pages. But without web server wide HTTP compression, the FrontPage generated static pages would still be full size.

Most of my other web sites are now running under the Etomite CMS, which doesn't seem to have a HTTP compression option. So again, web server wide HTTP compression would be needed.

Can those of us on shared hosting with JaguarPC turn on HTTP compression at the server level?

Best Regards, Lloyd.

[tank]

I would like to see the tech reference for gzip'ing causeing longer generations times. If your server is adequate it can handle the axtra processing needed. I see no additional increase on generation times on very active forums (40,000+ views per day). It saves a ton of bandwidth as well. Perhaps I'm misreading something though.