How much does gzip compress files

Improve this answer. Johann 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Spudley Spudley k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Ric - no, all browsers support it.

And even with browsers that don't support it, they should still work -- it's part of the HTTP 1. As I recall, there was a bug in early versions of IE6 that would break gzip, but web servers implemented work-arounds for that, and IE6 itself was fixed in WinXP SP2, so there really aren't going to be many people still using the broken version.

Yes, but a all common browsers and servers support it, and b compression is negotiated between the browser and server for each transaction, so any lack of support by uncommon clients is handled automatically. So computers are fast but the internet is slow, so we want to send a smaller file over the wire.

But if it's a fast server and I have a good internet speed and I'm using an android phone with a slow CPU, could gzip cause a slower web page load? Does decompression ever take longer than downloading?

Curtis: Does decompression ever take longer than downloading? Not for any practical example. The only things where the gzip is not worth it are files that are already heavily compressed. Devesh Devesh 4, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. If you are providing a text information which is very brief, you can add it to the comment area just below where the user has asked his question.

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Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Let's take picture files, for example. The most popular picture formats, including. The same is true for popular music formats like. You also need to take into account the extent of compression.

When you gzip a file, I think it starts writing the. If it runs out of room, it whacks the. I might be wrong Experienc talking: If gzip crashes it takes out the files it was to be ziping. Does gzip create temporary copies? Posted: Fri Feb 22, am. I'm curious RedHat Commands.

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