- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:10:57 +0100
- To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
2009/7/22 John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>: > > In practical terms, how [gzip http compression] manifest? One line/click in the HTTP server configuration, and its completely transparent after that for both anyone working on the website backend and everyone browsing the site. > what steps are necessary for web designers/developers > wanting to ensure that such compression is applied to the sites that they > build? Read the manual for your webserver, or hire a competent systems administrator. > I'm trying to understand whether a distinction exists between the > availability of this technology and how much it is actually used. It is used extremely widely by people who pay bandwidth bills, or are in charge of reducing them, but since bandwidth is so cheap for most sites these days, its maybe less common than it was... Its also possible that those concerned with reducing page load latency would also use this more than those who don't pay attention to that, but then they are more likely to use a 3rd party content distribution network service (akamai, etc) or run their own load balancing and caching system rather than tweak their HTTP server directly. HTH, Dave
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