- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:21:09 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Cc: frystyk@w3.org, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Luigi Rizzo: [...] >I have done a quick test on the content of our proxy cache: for each >directory, I have compared the output of [...] >with a saving, due to compression, of approximately 13% . The 13% may be too pessimistic. Another data point: about 2 years ago, I measured the amount of text/* data in the HTTP traffic between our campus proxy cache and outside servers, this turned out to be 30%. As text/* data generally compresses with a factor of 75%, compression would lead to savings of 30%*0.75 = 23% for total off-campus traffic. Also, compressing HTML pages may increase the perceived speed by more than this percentage because it would allow browsers to render the layout and start loading inlines (or subframes) earlier. By the way, we really need more datapoints on this, and on other proposed optimisations. > Cheers > Luigi Koen.
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