HTTP compression

Hey, has anyone did any HTTP compression ?
I want to know how that works. Any pro and con ?

As far as i know it compresses your website so that it will be faster to load.

Has anyone had any experience with it ?

 

http compression?? Is there something like that? How about just delete some unused plugin on your website.

 

1. Its not a for a blog
2. i found this idea from http://www.websiteoptimization.com/
3. run your site and read the results... (i dont know if blogs like wordpress will get the same results as reg site)

 

try some HTML code compression or cleaner tools to compress HTML code of your website that will help in making your website load faster.

 

Are you talking about installing/enabling mod_gzip on your webserver? It can also be done for dynamically generated content. It will of course load your website faster.

A couple of years ago many websites avoided that because browsers rendered these pages incorrectly. Most browsers are find with accepting zipped/gzipped content. Google's first page is served compressed.

 

i think output compression is possible only with server programming language like php...

 

That's not entirely true. Mod_gzip can compress static as well as dynamic websites effortlessly. You just need to configure it correctly. No programming required for this one

 

Thats what i am talking about...

So is it worth it ? How many people do that ? Where to start ?

 

Of course it's worth it. You can reduce your bandwidth usage by manifold. HTML gets compressed 5-6 times very easily. It's also good for the user because he/she believes the website is very fast. I think a lot of people are using it right now. I have seen Google, Rediff, Indiatimes using it. Didn't check others.

If you are using apache, check how to start using the module

 

Any links with instructions how to do this ?

 

Just searched for 'configuring mod_gzip' and found two good resources:

http://schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/config.htm

and

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/secrets/advanced/configuring-mod_gzip.html

You can decide to configure only htm and html files. You can also decide files below 1kb are not worth compressing.

 

Thanks for the links...
I was looking at them and i can honestly tell you that for an amateur like me this looks confusing.
After reading this i decided its probably not for me - or at least not YET.

Thanks Jitendraag for your help.