what is HTTP compression?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by cryoffalcon, Mar 27, 2012.

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    Hi,
    today i read about HTTP compression in wikipedia but believe me i didn't understand a word but though it made me curious as it has something to do with SEO. So my questions are:
    1- What is HTTP compression?
    2- How exactly it is done?
    3- What are advantages and disadvantages of doing it?
    4- Any big player (e-g google, yahoo, facebook etc) anyone doing it?
     
    cryoffalcon, Mar 27, 2012 IP
  2. iphoneappdevelopment

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    HTTP compression, otherwise known as content encoding, is a publicly defined way to compress textual content transferred from web servers to browsers. HTTP compression uses public domain compression algorithms, like gzip and compress, to compress XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, and other text files at the server.
     
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    Can you give me a link to an example where they would have shown how to do it properly, or a tutorial from where i could learn how to do it, as you explained it really well and now i understand what it is but still i don't know how to do it ^_^
     
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    HTTP compression uses standards-based gzip and deflate compression algorithms to compress your XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript to speed up web page.

    there are more details could be found on google.
     
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    Irfi0009 Banned

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    HTTP compression uses standards-based gzip and deflate compression algorithms to compress your XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript to speed up web page.
     
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    That's useful for speed up for your page but i recommend to use mod_pagespeed
    You can try nextmon(dot)com to check your page speed
     
    nextmon, Mar 28, 2012 IP